A 26-year-old Indonesian maid has been sentenced to four weeks
in jail for feeding her employer urine.
Sri Aryati had committed the act of mischief in her first week with
her new employers.
The petite, short-haired woman told the court she was upset she
could not get enough sleep.
She said she could only go to bed at about 3am every day because
she had to wait for her employer’s father to return
home.
So on the night of 15th December last year, she filled a ceramic
cup with her urine and poured it into a kettle and water
jug.
The court heard her employer’s father-in-law and two-year-old son
subsequently drank from the jug but did not fall ill.
Sri Aryati was found out when her employer thought the water had a
weird smell.
She confessed after being grilled about it.
Pleading for leniency, Sri Aryati said she was remorseful for
committing the offence.
She added she was the sole breadwinner and has two children back
home.
The district judge acceded to her request to backdate her sentence
to 22nd December, the day she was remanded.
She could have been jailed for up to one year and fined.
--938Live