Singapore jails Indian-origin woman

A Singaporean woman of Indian origin, who tortured her Myanmarese <g data-gr-id="19">maid</g> over a period of three months, burning her with a heated metal ladle and beating her with a grinding tool, was jailed for 15 months on Thursday .

Suganthi Jayaraman, 34, who pleaded guilty to three charges of maid abuse, was also ordered to pay SGD 4,900 compensation to Naw Mu Den Paw. The court heard she scalded the 24-year-old maid in the kitchen of her apartment on September 28, 2013, as she was not happy with the curry the helper had cooked.

She heated <g data-gr-id="16">an</g> 18 cm-long ladle until it was red-hot before sweeping it over the woman’s left calf and back, according to media reports on Thursday.

No medication was given to Paw, who was told to wear long pants to cover up the injury. Earlier on September 20, she had been unhappy with the helper for not frying <g data-gr-id="21">vadais</g> quickly enough. Suganthi grabbed a metal pestle and hit her on the back of her head as well as near her right eyebrow.Paw bled heavily but was not given medical attention.

Instead, she was told to finish frying the <g data-gr-id="17">vadais</g> and deliver them to the mini-mart run by Suganthi and her husband.