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Man Jailed For Punching Maid
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Article extracted from channel newsasia website dated on 7 December 2010.

Link to the article:
http://news.xin.msn.com/en/singapore/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4506053

Mr Yap Yian Bee a 52—year—old man was jailed on Tuesday (6 december 2010) for three months, for punching his Indonesian maid who was only allowed to have four hours of sleep in a day from 5am to 9am. Mr Yap had asked his maid by the name of sinewi to help him hold the front portion of his son’s toy car as he wanted to repair it with some tools. But Ms Sinewi dozed off as she was holding on to the toy, and because of that Mr Yap used a screwdriver and hit her on the forehead. Despite getting hit with the screwdriver, Ms Sinewi went to the kitchen to wash some dirty dishes whihc was left in the sink. Mr Yap tailed her and punched her eyes several times because he claimed that the noise that she was supposedly making would wake his children up. Ms Sinewi, suffered injuries including bruises on her limbs and on both cheeks. Mr Yap has also agreed to pay a compensation of S$4,000 to the maid for hurting her.

Getting jailed for 3 months and paying a compesation of $4000 is definetly not enough for what Mr Yap has done to his maid. I agree that money can heal her wounds but will it be able to heal the fear that Mr yap has left in her? I don't think so. He has not just wounded Ms Sinewa physically but mentally as well. This incident must have definetly left Ms Sinewa in fear of wanting to work in other places as she might be afraid of getting hit again. Culprits like Mr Yap should be charged more severly and not left off this easily. After all, maids are human beings just like us, they have feelings too and they deserve to be treated with respect. I hope that people who have maids at home would think twice about how they behave towards them and try to improve on their behaviour towards them. Just because they are maids and have been employed to work for us, that does not give us the right to treat them like slaves and tourture them.

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