November 5, 2009 Thursday
Updated

Nov 4, 2009
3-year jail for maid abuse
By Khushwant Singh
Maselly Abdul Aziz (right), 39, is the last in a family of maid abusers to be sentenced for these offences committed on Ms Badingah (left) in 2007. --ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW, SAMUEL HE

THE woman who poured boiling water on her maid's genitals and joined in to extract the Indonesian woman's two front teeth with pliers, was jailed for three years on Wednesday.

Maselly Abdul Aziz, 39, is the last in a family of maid abusers to be sentenced for these offences committed on Ms Badingah in 2007.

Her two older children and a woman described in court as Maselly's lesbian lover were jailed last year for their part in abusing the maid.

Maselly, a divorcee, was allowed to begin her jail sentence on Dec 28 as her elder daughter would be released on home detention by then to look after a two-year-old grandchild - her daughter's son.

After the three-week trial, District Judge Jeffrey Sim was also convinced that Maselly had hit Ms Badingah with a metal rod and threatened to kill her.

She pleaded guilty to employing another foreign maid without a work permit between March and December 2005 and was fined $7,500.

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