Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Hong Kong woman found guilty of abusing Indonesian maid...

A Hong Kong housewife has been convicted of a horrific campaign of violence against her domestic maid in a case that sparked global outrage and cast light on the struggles of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers in the former British colony.

Law Wan-tung, a 44-year-old mother-of-two, was convicted of 18 counts of violence against Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, her former Indonesian maid, on Tuesday morning and remanded for sentencing. Amanda Woodcock, the presiding judge, said that on one occasion Ms Law had punched her employee so hard it had fractured her teeth.

During a six-week trial Ms Law, a former beauty parlour worker, was accused of starving, humiliating and beating her employee using domestic implements including mop-handles, hangers, a ladder and even a vacuum cleaner.

"I was locked up in the house. I couldn't open the door. If I opened the door the alarm would sound and the employer would hit me," the 23-year-old Indonesian woman told Hong Kong's South China Morning Post.

 "I'm still getting treatment for my broken nose, my swollen head still hasn't been healed." Full story...

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