On 29th April 2009, at 10pm Singapore time, My beloved
son, Star, (a Siberian husky dog) was brought down by this maid to
pee before his sleep but today when returning back to home from the
pee, the maid entered the lift and closed the lift door with Star
still outside the lift and Star was brutally pulled up and hanged
at the top side of the lobby lift door being choked by his collar.
The maid did not informed me immediately so that I can go down to
the lobby immediately to save him, instead she sat on the 3rd floor
(I lived on the 2nd floor)and gave wrong information to the
security guard doing his rounds on the 3rd floor by saying Star is
under the lift hole instead of hanging at the ground floor,
therefore the security guard has to inform the condo management
committee to get permission to call the civil defence for the
rescue. It was about 20mins before 3rd floor neighbor came and
alerted me and I went up to the 3rd floor with the maid shifting
the blame to the security guard saying he was the one making the
lift went up to the 3rd floor (this maid is cunning, during the
afternoon about 4pm, she was complaining to my mom about my dog and
wishing him to die soon when my dog never bothered, bark or bite
her at all. She knew my dog leashed is those flat nylon retractable
type running 3m long, so if she went to the 2nd floor, my dog will
not be hanged and if she went to the 4th floor, the leashed will
snapped and my dog will not died, so this maid chose to goes up to
the 3rd floor). After a while, the security guard went down to wait
for the civil defence and found my dog hanging at the ground floor
lift door and he informed me quickly, when I rushed down to the
lift lobby, Star was dead hanging there :-(
She has so many ways to save Star (Pressing the 'Open' button, used
her hand to block the lift door sensor, borrowed a pair of scissors
from the 3rd floor neighbors to cut the leash, press the 1st floor
button for the lift to go down immediately) and yet she did nothing
at all.
I was saddened to see Star dead hanging there with white foam and
blood hanging from his mouth. I hold him and my neighbor unlock the
collar and I brought him down immediately but he has no more heart
beat already. :-(
He was hanged at 10:08pm and dead at about 10:19pm Singapore time
(based on the CCTV recording time) and yet the maid still trying to
defend herself saying she has nothing to do with it when I bought
her to watch the CCTV on the next day. She regarded the CCTV
capture on Star struggling for 11mins before passing away as
another episode of a TV drama.
Initially she used the excuse saying it was the security guard's
fault and she was too stunned to do anything but when Star was dead
for after an hour, she can returned home turning on the water
heater, test the water temperature, have a warm shower, combed her
hair and then turn on the airconitioner (I let her have her own
room instead of those storeroom, and also allowed her to turn on
the aircondition as she has mentioned she can't sleep in hot
weather even with fan, and she doesn't closed the room door as she
said if closed the door, the airconditioner will gets too cold to
sleep) and went to bed, the next morning, she woke up (I did not
slept the whole night) like nothing has happened, made her hot
coffee, took her breakfast and sit there relaxing. Her duty at my
home was to mop the living once in the morning and once at night
and hand washed 3 set of baby clothes and the daytime she was
sleeping at my mom-in-law's home even though she was supposed to
take care of my baby girl, she lied to my mom saying she has too
much work at my home so my mom allowed her to sleep. Imagine she
took 1.5hours to mop a 300sqft living room in the morning and I
have to wait for her to get ready to go to my mom-in-law's place
and we got back home at 7+pm a night, so how busy can she gets when
my mom-in-law is the one cooking for the maid to eat during
weekdays and I am the one cooking for her during weekend.
I have regard her as a family member, buying nice clothing for her
and her son in Jakarta, buying her favourite Ya Kun kaya toast and
coffee every weekend, consulted her what she likes to have for her
meals and her favourite is mutton, chicken rice, mee soto and cod
fish, I bought those for her
too. When she asked for a higher salary as she mentioned she has
6yrs of experience in Singapore, I gave her the salary without
negotiating and I have even bought those $10 calling cards for her
(fully paid by me) to call her family
every 1.5weeks. I noticed she enjoyed gambling a lot, never failed
to bet on 4D, ToTo, lottery etc. When it came to work, she damaged
quite a number of household stuff and furniture yet I still did not
raised my voice with her at all but yet she murdered my Star. My
friends, relatives and colleagues consoled me saying Star blocked a
tragedy for my baby girl from this maid but I still cannot accept
that he was murdered in this manner. Star is so human like and he
even went to lick my baby girl when she falls down while walking
and the maid just stand there laughing whenever my girl falls down.
Imagine a Siberian husky whom did not get jealous on my baby girl
and still protects her like an older brother but yet the maid as a
human being cannot match that. He will rushed to the kitchen to get
me to tend to my girl when she woke up from her sleep too...
I am trying to send in the evidence and statement of the security
guard to MOM, hopefully this time round they will protect employers
like us.
I sincerely hope none of the good employers here will hired her and
let future tragedies happened (she may targets young kids and let
them injured or drowned in the pool and pretend is a mishap), this
post is to cautious potential employers from facing the same
mishap.
I am really sorry for your loss. It sounds like your maid is
terrible even though you treat her well. I do really hope you got
enough evidence to sack your maid or even better send her to
prison.
Your dog or any other animal dont deserve to die like that. They
are animals! They are innocent! If its up to me i will make sure
she will suffer the same death. Hell, even worse.
