Indian-origin Singaporean woman gets 30-year jail term for torturing maid to death
The Hindu
This is the longest jail term meted out in Singapore in a maid abuse case.
A 41-year-old Indian-origin Singaporean woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing her domestic help after repeatedly abusing her over the course of 14 months of employment, according to a media report on Tuesday. This is the longest jail term meted out in Singapore in a maid abuse case. In February, Gaiyathiri Murugayan pleaded guilty to 28 charges, including culpable homicide, voluntarily causing grievous hurt by starvation, voluntarily causing hurt by a heated substance and wrongful restraint, the Channel News Asia reported.
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