40-year-old Indonesian maid Hidayah, who only goes by one name, was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment on 14 February after pleading guilty to one count of voyeurism and one count of distributing an intimate image of her victim.
She had taken a picture of herself with a vulnerable elderly man wearing nothing on 18 April 2022 and sent it to her husband on Whatsapp.
She attached a message in Javanese along with the photo, saying “salary 8 million rupiah but my job is so hard, need to bathe old people.”
She then did the same thing about 4 days later and sent the photo to a friend.
The 79-year-old elderly victim, who has Parkinson’s disease and needs help performing his daily activities such as eating and showering, cannot be named due to a court order protecting his identity.
What happened?
The victim’s son-in-law had hired Hidayah through a maid agency back in February 2022, as well as giving her a mobile phone.
On 18 April 2022 at about 10.30am, Hidayah was bathing the elderly man in the latter’s home in Punggol when she got a call from her husband asking her what she was doing.
The maid then took a picture of herself and the elderly man, who was wearing nothing at the time, with her mobile phone and sent it to her husband.
About 4 days later, she took another similar photo and sent it to a friend via Facebook Messenger.
The victim’s son-in-law, who hired the maid, took her back to her agency on 6 May 2022, as well as taking back the mobile phone that he gave her.
It was not disclosed why he did so.
He went through the phone and saw the incriminating photos that the maid had taken of his father-in-law, and uncovered the Whatsapp chats where the maid had sent the photos to her husband and sister-in-law.
He then alerted the police to the incident on 8 May 2022.