A maid has been found guilty of stabbing her employer 94 times so she could leave them and join her lover in Hong Kong. The maid, an Indonesia national named only as Daryati, 27, has been found guilty of murdering her employer, 59-year-old Seow Kim Choo, at her home in…
A Singapore judge has acquitted an Australian woman accused of forcing her maid to clean a second-storey glass awning without safety measures in place. The district judge ruled on 28th January that the Philippine maid, identified as Ms Taculad Rose Mae Mata, had given uncorroborated evidence of the incident and…
Story By: Alex Cope, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire/@amylml The eight-year-old sister of the toddler whose arm was placed in boiling water by her housekeeper - causing second-degree burns - is "traumatised" by the incident and blames herself for it. According to local media, the girls’ 40-year-old mother, Amy…
Story By: Lee Bullen,Sub Editor: Joseph Golder,Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire/@amylml This is the moment a housekeeper places a toddler’s arm in boiling water - causing second-degree burns - because she wanted to be allowed to go back home. According to local media, the tot’s 40-year-old mother, Amy Low, from the island city-state…
Story By: Michael Leidig, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report This maid is facing life in jail and the cane after she allegedly attacked her employer with a knife when she was refused permission to go back home. The maid, aged 34, whose name was not given, had been working for the woman…
