Singapore, Singapore: A Singaporean woman who affes, assaulted and finally killed that her domestic worker was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday, with the judge describing the case like “among the worst types of guilty homicides”.
The state-state affluent has approximately 250,000 domestic workers who come mainly from the poorer Asian countries and ill-treatment stories are common.
But the abuse inflicted at Myanmar National Piang Ngaih Don, 24, was particularly awful and captured on CCTV installed in the family’s house. The domestic worker was stamped, strangled, stifled, beaten with brooms and burned with an iron, according to the documents of the Court.
The domestic worker died in July 2016, after his employer, Gaiyathiri Murugayan, attacked him several times over several hours.
Gaiyathiri, 41, pleaded guilty in February to 28 accusations, including guilty homicide. Another 87 accusations have been taken into account in the determination of the sentence.
She appeared in front of a Tribunal Tuesday wearing glasses and a black mask, and sat silently with her closed eyes and head bowed as the judge read his decision.
After hearing an additional mitigation means submitted by Gaiyathiri in the candidacy to avoid the sentence of life sought by the Prosecution, justice, see Kee Oon sentenced to 30 years in prison from the date of his arrest. 2016.
See Cité La “Cruelty Abject to the Fender Conduct” in its determination of the sentence, which it added must report “the indignation of society and the horror” to the crime.
But taking into account the obsessive compulsive disorder of the defendant and the depression she has developed at that time that she gave birth, see that he did not think that life imprisonment was “just and appropriate “
The Prosecution had looked for a reduced charge of killings guilty rather than murder – punishable by death in Singapore – after taking into account its mental health.
The maid was employed by Gaiyathiri and her husband, a policeman, in 2015 to help take care of their four-year-old daughter and his son of a year.
But Gaiyathiri physically assaulted the victim almost daily, often several times a day, with his 61-year-old mother sometimes associates himself into, according to judicial documents.
The domestic worker, employed by the family for more than a year at the time of his death, has been allowed to sleep for five hours a night and has been forced to shower and relieve with the door open.
Provided very little food, she lost about 38% of her body weight during her job and weighed only 24 kilograms (53 pounds) at the time of her death.
Gaiyathiri Joseph Chen’s lawyer had asked for a sentence of eight to nine years, saying that a “combination of stress” had transformed the mother in difficulty into an attacker.
He argued that a severe sentence would dissuade mothers in a similar situation to seek assistance – an argument that the Prosecution called “disintenu”.