SINGAPORE: An Indian-origin former girl warrant officer in the Singapore Army was on Monday jailed for 4 months and three weeks for abusing and beating her Indian maid.
K Rajakumari, 57, who retired after 35 years of provider, apologised to Sargunam Jeeva in Tamil and asked her not to tell somebody about her ordeal which incorporated being hit by a plastic hanger until it broke.
But the police officer investigating the case understood the language and Rajakumari was caught, 'The Straits Times' reported on Monday.
She was charged for many times abusing her maid in 2012.
After a 14-day trial, District Judge Imran Abdul Hamid convicted Rajakumari on September 5 ultimate 12 months of five counts of causing hurt to Jeeva, then 35, in her condo apartment.
Jeeva first came to Singapore in overdue January 2012 however was abused between February and March of the similar 12 months.
Rajakumari had picked her and she was to be paid Singapore greenbacks 350 a month with none days off.
Jeeva, who had studied up to eighth grade and may just not speak English, was often scolded with caustic remarks by Rajakumari by the second week of February 2012 and the abuse soon was bodily.
On the evening of March 3, 2012, after Jeeva ironed Rajakumari's uniform, the employer chided the maid for not knowing easy methods to do a correct process of ironing.
She then hit Jeeva on her left upper arm with a plastic hanger until it broke.
Two days later, she scolded and slapped the maid exhausting on her face before pulling her hair and pushing her face against the window grill and kicking her in the waist.
Jeeva advised the employer that she may just not "withstand this torture any more" and requested Rajakumari to send her again to the agent's house.
But Rajakumari advised her this was not imaginable. That evening, Jeeva gestured to a maid in a neighbouring house for assist and the latter known as the police.
A policeman later heard Rajakumari tell Jeeva in Tamil: "Please forgive me, I won't do this anymore, please don't tell anyone about the abuse".
Unknown to Rajakumari, the officer may just speak the language. Rajakumari later admitted to him that she had hit Jeeva.
Rajakumari's legal professional Kalidass Murugaiyan had previous asked the pass judgement on to sentence his shopper to probation, stressing that she has had 3 hip replacements.
For each and every depend of maid abuse, she can have been jailed for up to 3 years and fined up to Singapore greenbacks 7,500.
K Rajakumari, 57, who retired after 35 years of provider, apologised to Sargunam Jeeva in Tamil and asked her not to tell somebody about her ordeal which incorporated being hit by a plastic hanger until it broke.
But the police officer investigating the case understood the language and Rajakumari was caught, 'The Straits Times' reported on Monday.
She was charged for many times abusing her maid in 2012.
After a 14-day trial, District Judge Imran Abdul Hamid convicted Rajakumari on September 5 ultimate 12 months of five counts of causing hurt to Jeeva, then 35, in her condo apartment.
Jeeva first came to Singapore in overdue January 2012 however was abused between February and March of the similar 12 months.
Rajakumari had picked her and she was to be paid Singapore greenbacks 350 a month with none days off.
Jeeva, who had studied up to eighth grade and may just not speak English, was often scolded with caustic remarks by Rajakumari by the second week of February 2012 and the abuse soon was bodily.
On the evening of March 3, 2012, after Jeeva ironed Rajakumari's uniform, the employer chided the maid for not knowing easy methods to do a correct process of ironing.
She then hit Jeeva on her left upper arm with a plastic hanger until it broke.
Two days later, she scolded and slapped the maid exhausting on her face before pulling her hair and pushing her face against the window grill and kicking her in the waist.
Jeeva advised the employer that she may just not "withstand this torture any more" and requested Rajakumari to send her again to the agent's house.
But Rajakumari advised her this was not imaginable. That evening, Jeeva gestured to a maid in a neighbouring house for assist and the latter known as the police.
A policeman later heard Rajakumari tell Jeeva in Tamil: "Please forgive me, I won't do this anymore, please don't tell anyone about the abuse".
Unknown to Rajakumari, the officer may just speak the language. Rajakumari later admitted to him that she had hit Jeeva.
Rajakumari's legal professional Kalidass Murugaiyan had previous asked the pass judgement on to sentence his shopper to probation, stressing that she has had 3 hip replacements.
For each and every depend of maid abuse, she can have been jailed for up to 3 years and fined up to Singapore greenbacks 7,500.
Indian-origin officer jailed for maid abuse in Singapore
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