A WOMAN who burned her domestic worker with a heated metal ladle and hit her with a metal grinding tool has been jailed for 15 months.
Suganthi Jayaraman, 34, who pleaded guilty to three charges of maid abuse, was ordered yesterday to pay S$4,900 (RM13,700) in compensation to Naw Mu Den Paw, a 24-year-old Myanmar national.
The court heard that she scalded the maid in the kitchen of her flat in Woodlands on Sept 28, 2013, as she was not happy with the curry the helper had cooked.
She heated an 18cm-long ladle until it was red hot before sweeping it over Paw’s left calf and back.
No medication was given to Paw, who was told to wear long pants to cover up the injury.
Earlier on Sept 20, she had been unhappy with the helper for not frying vadais, an Indian snack, quickly enough.
Suganthi then grabbed a metal pestle and hit her on the back of her head and near her right eyebrow.
On Sept 30, she punched the maid in the eye after the victim, who had finished work at 4am, was not up by 6.30am to take Suganthi’s daughter to school.
Paw ran away on Oct 3. — The Straits Times / Asia News Network
