Teng, a Malaysian, stamped on the victim's thighs, slapped her
and hit her on the head after chiding her for dozing off while
wiping the floor in the living room on July 5 that year. Half an
hour later when she emerged from her bedroom, she again claimed
that the maid had dozed off while working and pushed her body,
causing her to fall.
Miss Susilatawati, who suffered repeated abuses during her
four-month employment, decided to run away after that. She climbed
out of the fifth-floor Pasir Ris kitchen window and made her way
across a ledge to the staircase landing. She found her way to a
mosque and some people took her to the Indonesian embassy. A police
report was made.