RI maid 'forced to drink toilet water'

RI maid 'forced to drink toilet water'

MALAYSIA: A 25-year-old Indonesian maid has accused her Malaysian employer of forcing her to eat excrement and drink from the toilet bowl in the latest case of alleged maid abuse in the country, police said on Monday.

The maid claimed her 27-year-old employer in the northeast state of Kelantan also punched her in the eyes and smeared her body with excrement early on Sunday, police spokesman Ishak Abdul Majid was quoted by Bernama news agency.

After asking for permission to clean herself, the maid escaped and reported to police before being hospitalized for treatment, he said.

Police are investigating the case and have not arrested the employer, who had recently had a baby, he added.

The allegations follow the country's worst maid abuse case in which 19-year-old Indonesian Nirmala Bonet was allegedly burned repeatedly with an iron across her breasts, beaten and scalded with boiling water. Her employer is on bail awaiting trial. -- AFP