A 33-year-old maid from Indonesia bit an baby on the arm because the baby refused to go to sleep, and she was jailed 6 months for ill-treating the toddler.
Channel NewsAsia reported that the Indonesian maid, Masita Khoridaturochmah, had started working for the baby’s mother back in 2021.
She was tasked with doing housework as well as looking after her employer’s two young twin daughters.
On 26 May 2022, her employer went to pick up her older child from preschool and Masita was left home alone with the two toddlers, who were 14-months old twins.
She tried to get them to go to sleep but after half an hour, one of the babies was still awake, and Masita got frustrated with the toddler.
At about 6.30pm, she bit the toddler on her left forearm, resulting in the child suffering a bruise.
The child’s mother later returned home about half an hour later and prepared the baby for bed, that was when she noticed a bruise that was shaped like a bite mark on her child’s arm, according to The Straits Times.
She then confronted the maid, but she denied biting the toddler.
The mother was not convinced by Masita’s denial and continued questioning the maid, and the latter eventually confessed to what she had done and got down on her knees, apologising to her employer.
The employer then lodged a police report against her maid and took her baby to see a doctor, where the child was found with a bruise on her left forearm that measured about 4cm long and 3.5cm wide, according to Shin Min Daily News.
However, there wasn’t any wounds or bleeding on the toddler’s forearm.
Masita was sentenced in court yesterday (4 April) to 6 months imprisonment for one count of ill treating the toddler.