Court jails maid for cutting penis

Court jails maid for cutting penis

SINGAPORE: An Indonesian maid who used a kitchen knife to inflict a two-centimeter cut on the penis of a two-year-old toddler has been jailed for 18 months, the Straits Times reported on Thursday.

District judge Kow Keng Siong said Suharti Sumito had abused the trust of the toddler's parents by causing injury on a "defenseless boy" as he handed down his verdict in court on Wednesday.

She committed the act when the boy urinated on her slacks, the court was told.

The boy, whose identity cannot be revealed under law, could suffer a permanent scar and further "psychological and physiological" effects when he grows up, the judge said. -- AFP