Cops in touch with 'Datin' who abused maid
Friday, 23 Mar 20189:29 PM MYT
by m. kumar
PETALING JAYA: Police have managed to contact the "Datin", who escaped jail time for abusing her Indonesian domestic helper, through her lawyer.
Rozita Mohamad Ali, 44, and her bailor, a Royal Malaysian Air Force official, failed to attend court proceedings to review her sentence on Wednesday (March 21).
“We managed to liaise with her lawyer,” Selangor police chief Comm Datuk Mazlan Mansor said when contacted Friday.
He, however, said that police had not "tracked her down" as reported by some media outlets.
“Anyway, the court notice for her to appear is on March 29,” he said.
It was reported that a notice to appear in court was sent to Rozita’s homes in Petaling Jaya and Melaka as well as the bailor’s house, but no one was around.
Attempts to serve the notice on Rozita and the bailor were made right until Tuesday night (March 20).
On March 15, Rozita was bound over for five years on a good behaviour bond of RM20,000 for causing grievous hurt to her maid Suyanti Sutrinso, 21.
Rozita was charged with using a kitchen knife, a steel mop and an umbrella to attack Suyanti at a house in Mutiara Damansara on June 21, 2016.
The maid suffered multiple injuries to her eyes, both legs, hands and internal organs.
She also had a broken scapula, injuries to her right lung, a blood clot near her brain and a cheek fracture.
Rozita was initially charged with attempted murder.
She was later charged under Section 326 of the Penal Code with causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means.
Judge Mohammed Mokhzani Mokhtar meted out the sentence against Rozita after she pleaded guilty to the amended charge.
The case was covered by international media and a video on it went viral on social media.
Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/03/23/cops-manage-to-contact-datin-who-abused-maid/#hZlDbcxwKIZwZhe4.99
