A 41 y.o woman who was suffering from mental disorders pleaded guilty in court today (15 Oct) to three counts of voluntary causing hurt to her maid as well as ill treatment of a child.
She physically abused her maid by choking her with a towel and also pressed a hot lighter on her own daughter.
The bullying of the maid
It started in December 2017 when she slapped her maid twice in the face. The maid was then further abused almost every other day whenever she made mistakes such as not finishing her assigned tasks or for oversleeping.
The maid was given the expectation to finish up her assigned chores by the time the woman woke up.
In 2018, the woman woke up to find that her maid did not complete her cleaning of the living room.
Angered by it, she verbally scolded her and abused her physically by slapping and kicking her.
She then grabbed her by the hair and pushed her head against the wall before rolling a towel and wrapping it around the maid’s neck which choked her.
The maid cried out and struggled to breathe and was eventually released by the woman.
In a third incident where the woman saw her maid dozing off for a while at 5.15am, she kicked her which caused her to fall inside the toilet.
The maid finally decided that the abuse that she received was enough and she escaped through a window when her employers were inside their room.
She was found by a member of the public who called the police and took her to the hospital as she was suffering from multiple bruises and scratches over her body.
Daughter was also not spared from abuse
In October 2019, the accused started abusing her own daughter.
The 9 y.o girl at that time was preparing for her upcoming examinations when the accused asked her to vacuum the floor.
However, the girl replied that she wants to finish up her preparations first which enraged her mother enough to use the metal tip of a heated lighter to press it on her forearm.
When asked by her husband, she claimed that she was only using the lighter to scare her daughter as she has seen her daughter playing with the lighter and did not know that the metal tip was hot.
Referred to IMH
The accused was finally referred to a psychiatrist at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) and was diagnosed with major depressive disorder, obsessive control disorder as well as some psychotic symptoms.
The psychiatrist also said that her mental illness played a part in her committing the offences.
The accused has not been sentenced by the judge, who asked for time to review the findings and the submissions from the prosecution.
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