Maid forced to eat dog droppings

Maid forced to eat dog droppings

SINGAPORE (AFP): A 15-year-old Indonesian maid was twice forced by her employers, including a 13-year-old boy, to eat dog droppings for not cleaning up quickly after the dog, a newspaper reported yesterday.

The maid detailed the story Monday to a local court along with other forms of abuse that her employers heaped on her since she went to work for them last year, the Straits Times said.

One night in May, the employer's son "told me to eat the dog (droppings) and he gave me three minutes to eat it. He said that if I did not, he would beat me," the maid, Hartati Ali Sodikun, told the court.

The incident was repeated a few days after. When she emerged from the toilet after washing her mouth, the son asked her: "Was it delicious?", the report said.

The maid said she slept on old newspapers in the kitchen floor of the luxury apartment and that she was hardly fed. The mother and son would whack her with tennis rackets when they found out she ate more bread than usual, the report added.

The boy pleaded guilty last month in a juvenile court for burning the maid with a hot iron, scalding her with boiling water and punching her in the forehead, the report said.