by Elena Chong & Elizabeth Soh
HARROWING footage of a teenage Indonesian maid shaking,
slapping, kicking and dropping her employer's one-year-old daughter
was played in court yesterday.
Desi Kurnia, 17, was sentenced to 33 months in jail after
pleading guilty to eight charges of ill-treating the child.
She was 16 when she committed the offences at her employer's
home in the east, over a period of five days in late November and
December 2009. Her age was originally given as 25.
The victim has made a full recovery.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Wong Woon Kwong said Desi, a transfer
maid, had been told specifically not to discipline the child, now
aged two.
Yet, the victim's grandmother noticed that Desi had hit the
baby.