Maid sentenced to jail

Sun, 05 Nov 2000, 00:00 WIB | Source: AP

KUALA LUMPUR (AP): An Indonesian housemaid who ran away with
her employer's 15-month-old son has been sentenced to two years
in jail, news reports said Saturday.

Enny Susilawati, 48, pleaded guilty in a Kuala Lumpur court
Friday to abducting Mohamed Emir Mohmamed Ghazali from his
family's apartment on Oct. 18, The Star and New Straits Times
dailies reported.

Enny, who worked as the family's maid for two months, was
arrested by police who found her and the toddler after a four-day
search. She claimed she could no longer bear being mistreated by
the family.

Many middle-class families in Malaysian cities employ
housemaids from Indonesia and the Philippines. Incidents of
foreign-maid abuse have drawn regular media attention in Malaysia
over the past year.

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