Comment: Time for S'pore to allow maids to live outside employers' houses?
The recent case of the extreme abuse of a Myanmar maid at the hands of her Singaporean employer has rattled the nation. What initially started as verbal abuse devolved into a litany of inhumane physical assaults — including slaps, punches, kicks, assaults with hard objects, hair ripping, and burns — which went on for nearly 10 months. Then there was the mental abuse: Being made to shower under the watch of her employers, subsist on cold food or soggy sliced bread, and being restrained to a window grille. The physical toll of the abuse resulted in Piang Ngaih Don losing 38 per cent of her ...
Source: mothership.sg