RI maid 'tortured' in S'pore<\/p>\n
SINGAPORE (DPA): An 18-year-old Indonesian maid covered with
\nbruises, burns and lacerations claims she was abused by a
\nSingaporean family for several months, news reports said
\nyesterday.<\/p>\n
The woman, identified only as Hartapi, said she had been
\nscalded with hot water and beaten by her employer's wife and 13-
\nyear-old son.<\/p>\n
Two unidentified men helped Hartapi escape from her employer's
\nluxury condominium earlier this week and brought her to the
\nIndonesian embassy. She is currently warded at Singapore General
\nHospital.<\/p>\n
"I couldn't believe how badly she was hurt," one of the men
\nwho helped her flee said in a Straits Times newspaper report.
\n"Whoever did this was worse than an animal."<\/p>\n
The maid said she was last beaten on Tuesday morning, when her
\nemployer's son attacked her with a badminton racket after she
\nwoke him for school.<\/p>\n
Photographs published in the newspaper showed the woman, her
\nforehead bruised and swollen, her back covered with welts and her
\narms scalded and covered with scabs.<\/p>\n
Police have reportedly visited the employer's home and are
\ninvestigating the incident.<\/p>\n
Other cases of foreign maid abuse have made headlines in
\nSingapore. Last year a grandmother was jailed three months for
\nburning her Filipino maid with a hot iron, and a sales executive
\nwas jailed for two weeks for slapping and kicking a maid, also a
\nFilipino.<\/p>",
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