Housewife jailed for abusing RI maid

Housewife jailed for abusing RI maid

SINGAPORE: A Singaporean housewife was jailed for 10 months
for abusing her Indonesian maid on a record 79 occasions, media
reports said on Thursday.

Sazarina Madzin, a 29-year-old mother of three, had admitted
hitting her maid, Wiwik Setyowati, all those times in less than a
year and threatening to kill her once.

The ethnic Malay woman was jailed on Wednesday for two months
on each of the six maid abuse charges. Another 73 similar charges
and one of criminal intimation were taken into consideration by
the district court, according to The Straits Times.

The 22-year-old Wiwik recorded the 10 months of abuse in two
dairies. Finally she reported the abuse, ending the brutal saga.

Wiwik was struck over the slightest mistake, with a tomato
sauce bottle, chopping board, broom or chopping board, the court
was told. The employer would also use her bare hands and feet to
slap, punch, kick and pinch her as well.

The irony was not lost on Nor Azlan Sulaiman, Sazarina's
husband and an active volunteer with the Red Cross and a mosque
that helped deliver food and relief to Indonesians after last
year's tsunami. He resigned this week from his position as an
operations manager with a mosque to look after the children. --
DPA