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A 34-year-old woman has become the fifth person from her family to be sent to jail over offences involving a mildly intellectually disabled friend who was treated as a slave and physically abused until she almost died.
Haslinda Ismail was sentenced yesterday to 8½ years' jail after she pleaded guilty last month to two counts of voluntarily causing hurt and one count of twisting the victim's toe with a pair of pliers until it fractured.
She is out on $30,000 bail and will surrender herself at the State Courts on March 1 to begin serving her sentence.
Haslinda had splashed hot water on the victim, now 30, scalding her abdomen, thigh and groin.