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        "msgid": "ri-maid-alleges-employer-of-abuse-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-08-16 00:00:00",
        "title": "RI maid alleges employer of abuse",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "RI maid alleges employer of abuse SINGAPORE: An Indonesian maid told a court in Singapore that her employer pegged her eyebrows and hit her knees with a meat tenderiser to stop her from falling asleep, the Straits Times reported Thursday. Toifah Paino testified in court Wednesday against her employer Tong Lai Chun for alleged abuse. She said Tong would clip four clothes pegs on each of her eyebrows while she fed Tong's two children.",
        "content": "<p>RI maid alleges employer of abuse<\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE: An Indonesian maid told a court in Singapore that<br>\nher employer pegged her eyebrows and hit her knees with a meat<br>\ntenderiser to stop her from falling asleep, the Straits Times<br>\nreported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Toifah Paino testified in court Wednesday against her employer<br>\nTong Lai Chun for alleged abuse.<\/p>\n<p>She said Tong would clip four clothes pegs on each of her<br>\neyebrows while she fed Tong's two children. \"Each time I felt<br>\nsleepy, ma'am would peg my eyebrows,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old maid also said Tong hit her knees with a metal<br>\nmeat tenderiser at least three times last year when she appeared<br>\nto be falling asleep while feeding the children.<\/p>\n<p>Paino said she had also been kicked and had her head hit<br>\nagainst the bathroom wall.<\/p>\n<p>The death of Indonesian maid Muawanatul Chasanah in December<br>\nfrom beatings by her employer has shocked Singaporeans and<br>\nprompted calls for tougher measures to protect the domestics who<br>\nplay a key economic and social role in the affluent city-state.<\/p>\n<p>There are some 140,000 foreign maids officially accredited in<br>\nSingapore, including 55,000 Indonesians. -- AFP<\/p>",
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