A maid in Singapore was caught on CCTV allegedly spiking her employer’s baby’s milk with medicine, resulting in the baby’s weight not increasing.
The employer, Mr Lin spoke to Shin Min Daily News and said that they hired their 27-year-old maid from Myanmar back in August last year, and she had performed well as displayed good attitude.
However, in the middle of December, he then saw on CCTV the maid slapping his 3-month old baby on the head when he was crying.
He then confronted the maid and told her that her job was to care for his baby, and they didn’t punish her for what she did.
But she was then caught dragging their son on the arm from one end of the crib to the other about 2 months later.
Lin also started noticing that his baby’s weight was not increasing and suspected something was wrong, so he then went through the CCTV footage and saw the maid spiking the baby’s milk with a pill.
She was seen opening the cabinet and taking out a pill while feeding the baby then shaking the bottle, before walking towards a blindspot of the camera and appearing to spike the drink.
Lin said that his son’s blood test report came back normal, but he was thinner than other kids of his age and he was worried about his child’s development.
He called the police on the same day he spotted the maid doing this, and she then admitted to the police that she had been putting panadol in the baby’s milk, and added that it was not the first time.
She also said that she placed a pill that she got from Myanmar to “boost” the baby’s appetite.
Lin’s wife also discovered hundreds of pills inside the maid’s drawers last year, with dozens of flu and cough medicine along sign panadol.
Lin didn’t think much of the discovery, and didn’t expect the maid to use them to spike his baby’s milk.
The Singapore Police Force confirmed that they are investigating the incident.