Wife of maid abuser charged

Wife of maid abuser charged

SINGAPORE: The wife of a Singapore man currently serving an 18- 1/2-year jail term for beating an Indonesian maid to death has been charged with similar offenses, the Sunday Times reported.

Tan Chai Hong was charged in court last Wednesday for grabbing and pinching the breasts of Muawanatul Chasanah, the 19-year-old maid who died last December from a ruptured stomach after being punched and kicked in the abdomen by Ng Hua Chye.

Tan was also charged for her failure to inform police of her husband's offenses in the nine-month period leading up to the maid's death.

She faces as much as six months in jail and a fine if convicted of failing to report to police about her husband's offenses and up to 18 months imprisonment for hurting the maid. --AFP