SINGAPORE: Upset with the way that her domestic worker had performed tasks such as hanging the laundry or cleaning bottles, a 67-year-old woman slapped, punched and scratched her, drawing blood.
The maid, who earned S$470 (about US$360) a month, told staff members from the Centre for Domestic Employees during a routine call about the abuse and a police report was made.
Hazel Phang Fong Yen, a 67-year-old Singaporean woman, was sentenced to four months’ jail on Wednesday (Jun 24).
She was also ordered to pay S$4,440 to the victim in compensation. If she does not pay this amount, she will have to serve another four weeks in jail.
She pleaded guilty to a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to a domestic worker, with a second similar charge taken into consideration.
THE CASE
The court heard that the victim, 27-year-old Myanmar national Man Sian Hoih Cing, started working for Phang in August 2022 when she was 23.
Phang lived with her husband and mother in a flat.
In September 2022, Phang asked the victim to check the expiry date of a food item. The victim performed another unspecified task that Phang had asked her to do, but forgot to check the expiry date.
Angered, Phang slapped the victim once on her cheek.
She slapped the victim another time, either that month or the following month, because the maid had failed to hear her asking for help.
In September or October 2022, Phang asked the victim to clean soap bottles in the toilet, which she did by spraying the bottles with water.
Phang punched the maid in her eye because she was upset at how she had cleaned the bottles.
In October 2022, the victim was hanging bedsheets to dry on a pole. Phang scolded her for hanging the heavier sheets at the end of the pole and proceeded to scratch the victim’s neck and chest area, which caused the skin to bleed.
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