Couple wants ex-maid
punished
By :
Marc Lourdes
PETALING JAYA: A couple is screaming for
justice after a foreign maid who sexually abused their 6-year-old
son was deported without having to face any criminal
charge.
The maid had allegedly performed oral sex on the boy,
forced him to watch pornography, locked him in a room for hours on
end and deprived him of food.
She also allegedly made him eat faeces, drink urine and fed him a
cocktail of Dettol, cement and detergent.
These alleged incidents occurred in December. The boy's mother, who
identified herself only as Kin, said the maid admitted to the
atrocities and was handed over to the police.
In January, Kin received a letter from the police stating that the
maid had been deported to Indonesia after the deputy public
prosecutor (DPP) decided not to press charges.
Kin immediately wrote a letter of appeal to the
Attorney-General's Chambers but to date, there has been no
reply.
"Why is this? She admitted to everything," Kin said.
"How can the authorities simply send her back. She may return under
another name and work for another family.
"And what if she does the same thing? Who is going to be held
responsible?"
Kin said the maid allegedly took revenge after she was reprimanded
for bringing strangers into her employer's home.
The maid had been employed by Kin for almost three years.
The abuse began in the middle of last year, after she was told off
for stealing food from the house and giving it to her contractor
boyfriend whom she brought home when the employer was away.
"Sometime in June, my son complained about being forced to eat his
3-year-old sister's excrement. I thought he was talking nonsense,"
said Kin.
"It was my sister who dug further into the matter and found out the
truth. The maid admitted abusing my son."
The boy was sent to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital and psychiatrists
confirmed that he was suffering emotional stress, in constant fear,
withdrawn and often had terrible nightmares.
"After all this, the culprit was allowed to go back," added
Kin.
Petaling Jaya district police chief Assistant Commissioner
Arjunaidi Mohamed said the case had hit a dead end due to lack of
evidence. "It's not to say we don't want to proceed.
"We cannot proceed," he said, adding that the main reason the case
had stalled was because the family had not co-operated with the
police.
He said the maid's admission did not mean anything.
"An admission, even in a murder case, does not mean anything if we
don't have evidence to back it up," said Arjunaidi.
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