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When family members abuse a maid together
It may be similar to school bullying, where one person leads and another follows suit: Experts
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Cara Wong
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One couple left their maid with a deformed ear. Another couple gave their maids only plain rice and water for their meals. Yet another pair abused their maid and threatened to send her to Batam for sex work.
These examples are part of a phenomenon where multiple members of a family abuse their foreign domestic workers, or maids.
