Starved, beaten with hammer, forced to sleep with dog: worst domestic worker abuse cases of Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia
The Singaporeans jailed this week for ordering their domestic worker to eat her own vomit were not a one-off
From Hong Kong’s Erwiana to an Indonesian beaten with bamboo, here are some of Asia’s most notorious cases of helper abuse
A Singaporean couple who force-fed their domestic worker with a funnel, ordered her to eat her own vomit and threatened to hire an assassin to kill her family if she reported them were jailed on Monday
The pair – who were sentenced two years ago in a separate case regarding the abuse of an Indonesian domestic worker – caned and kicked Myanmar national Moe Moe Than, 32, and also forced her to perform chores in her underwear.
A Malaysian couple were convicted of deliberately starving their Indonesian domestic worker to death
in June 2011.
Fong Kong Meng, then 58, and his wife Teoh Ching Yen, then 56, failed to provide food and medical treatment for Isti Komariyah during the three years she worked for them, the Malaysian High Court found.
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In an earlier case, a Cambodian domestic worker was starved to death in 2012 by her Malaysian employers.
Housewife Chin Chui Ling and her husband Soh Chew Tong, a hardware store owner, were convicted of murder in 2015 by the Court of Appeal and sentenced to death.
Their domestic worker Mey Sichan, 24, was found dead at the couple’s shophouse in Penang. At the time of her death, she weighed just 26kg.
A Singaporean couple were convicted of abusing their Myanmese domestic worker, including forcing her to pour scalding hot water on herself
and drink dirty water mixed with floor cleaner between August and October 2016.
You would think these are criminals or something.
Not a chance, these are your "upstanding" asian citizens.
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