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Maid Forced To Strip And Shower Before Family Members
House maids everywhere go through all sorts, but one of the worst, is to be made to strip and shower before boss’ family members, have your breasts pinched and your private parts kicked.
But a 31 year old madam did these and more to her hapless 18 year old maid, the consolation being that the law is now about to take its course on the woman in question, Rosdiana Abdul Rahim .
The accused admitted on trial April 2 to seven charges, including criminal intimidation, insulting a woman’s modesty, using criminal force, voluntarily causing hurt and failing to give her domestic worker adequate daily rest.
The Indonesian victim, who is now 21, took the stand on Thursday morning and gave her testimony through an interpreter, crying often at various points, reports CAN international
She told the court how Rosdianam, from Singapore had taunted her that her breasts were small and that her husband would not be interested in seeing them., before pinching them through her shirt and ripping it in front of her husband.
About December 2017 when the abuses took place, Rosdiana allegedly poured powder onto her maid’s face, causing it to enter her eyes, pinched her breast, kicked her twice in her vagina area, and closed the cupboard door on her forearm.
Other misdeeds alluded to her were intimidating the maid by threatening to hurt her family in Indonesia should she dare to do anything, outside a hotel in Singapore. She is also accused of failing to grant the maid adequate rest daily – a contravention of the conditions she had to comply with as an employer of a domestic worker.
The maid, then 18 first arrived in Singapore for her first stint as a domestic worker with a mindset to “change her life”.
Well, in a way, she began changing her life as she claimed that she was paid S$600 a month but made to sleep at various points on a carpet or outside a toilet, without a pillow or blanket.
She also slept under a cupboard, and initially used her own batik cloth as a blanket, but Rosdiana threw this away as she said “it was smelly”.
Rosdiana Abdul Rahim (left) at the State Courts on Apr 2, 2020. (Photo: Lydia Lam)
“Ma’am didn’t believe that I showered daily. I said I bathe every day but she didn’t believe me. She asked me how I bathe and shower myself.”
Once, Rosdiana allegedly pulled her arm and pushed her into a shower in the master bedroom.
“She used the shower head and turned on the water. I was still wearing my clothes at the time.Then she took the shower head and sprayed water all over me”, before asking the maid to take off all her clothes.
“I removed my clothes. I was crying inside the shower,” said the victim, her voice breaking and tears falling from her eyes.
She said she removed all her wet clothing, and then saw Rosdiana’s husband enter the room and the maid tried to cover herself. However Rosdiana simply told her, “No, my husband will not be interested”.
“I was afraid that she might threaten my family at home. After I finished bathing I wanted to change my clothes so when ma’am asked me how do I dry myself, I showed her with my hand.
“Ma’am will not let me change my clothes in the (bathroom). I had to change my clothes outside the bathroom while the husband was just outside there in the living room, he was in a position where he was able to see,”
“I was feeling afraid. I was scared. I feel humiliated,” said the maid, when asked how she felt.
She did not tell anyone about the incident then as she was “ashamed”. “I thought I lost my own value or moral,” she added.
Earlier that morning, Rosdiana had been angry with the maid, who had eaten a portion of maggi mee.
“She wanted to humiliate me in front of everyone (and) she tried to rip open my clothes until some of the buttons were opened,” said the maid, adding that other family members, including the grandmother, Rosdiana’s elder sister and the children watched without saying a thing.
Rosdiana then pulled on the maid’s bra from behind and under her blouse, causing a hook to fall off. The maid resisted by hunching over.
A few days later, before Rosdiana brought the family to Conrad Centennial hotel for an event, the employer had put baby powder all over the maid’s face, until “my eyes were hurting”, said the maid.
Rosdiana forbade the maid from removing the baby powder, and allegedly threatened her family, saying, “If you remove powder on your face, your parents when you go back will not be there for you.”
The maid believed that Rosdiana would harm her parents as the employer had once told her that her brother was married to someone from the same province in Indonesia.
The family of five stayed in the same hotel room for three days, where the maid was made to sleep on the floor in strong aircon without bedding or covering.
“I tried to take the bath towel but ma’am did not allow me. Because it was so cold I wanted to use it,” said the maid.
The day the family returned home, Rosdiana allegedly became infuriated after the maid failed to unpack the family’s suitcase fast enough.
“She scolded me then she pull me to dining table and scolded me all the way…. She ripped my clothes, at the time I was wearing a T-shirt, she pulled and ripped it. I tried to cover myself then she pinched my breast so I tried to cover my body.”
Additional reporting – Singapore Hardware Zone
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Israel
April 6, 2020 at 9:03 am
This is evil. She should pay for her wiicked deeds.
Chinaza
April 5, 2020 at 3:46 pm
The woman should be severely punished infact jailed for life
CHRISTIAN ANGEL
April 5, 2020 at 10:51 am
My name is Christian Angel. That woman is evil and heartless, she has to be punished in the same way she did to her maid. She also has to compensate her with every amount of the compensation given to the maid by the court of law to pay for the humiliation
Musa Andulkadir
April 5, 2020 at 10:22 am
I see it as young girl being in an evil house in which the grandmother failed in her role.The woman should receive appropriate punishment for her deeds.
Solomon
April 5, 2020 at 9:32 am
The Woman is very wicked; she needs to be punished for her act.
Johnmark
April 5, 2020 at 9:10 am
The woman should be made to face the consequence of her bad behaviour.
Joespence
April 5, 2020 at 8:50 am
Hmmm, loss of moral conscience
Samuel Arumo Akpo
April 5, 2020 at 8:44 am
Please the madam should be brought to justice either by law or by force, let her spend her whole life in a maximum prison in a solitary confinement
Rocksilva
April 5, 2020 at 8:38 am
This is absurd,I mean intimidation of the highest order. If this goes unpunished, then I wonder what the law stands for. I think the best way to stop this is by establishing an organisation that would visit homes from time to time to check up on all these vulnerable house maids because people treat them so badly like they are not worth being human; it is so terrible. This particular case is one out of millions of what goes on in people’s houses. I think everyone named in this who didn’t do anything to help this lady get justice is also a culprit and should be given a punishment too
Bitrus
April 5, 2020 at 7:57 am
I shed tears, that woman deserve life jail
Aniebiet
April 5, 2020 at 7:52 am
This is bad
Godwin osagie
April 5, 2020 at 7:26 am
God is alive watching each step; To God, grace is sure
ikpefuan Friday
April 5, 2020 at 7:09 am
if she didn’t want her y did she not let go instead of hating her to that extent. wickedworld.please justice must prevail
Godwin ebiokpo
April 5, 2020 at 6:31 am
Why the maid surfer so much. From the hand of her employer
Akins
April 5, 2020 at 3:17 pm
May God punish her and shame her as well, why didn’t she take one of her family members to do her house chores instead of intimidating and molesting an innocent young lady, the useless madam even went far to threatening her family members.To hell with her she must not go unpunished
Marcus
April 5, 2020 at 6:06 am
My name is Marcus, the woman should go to jail for life with hard labour.
Eze peculiar
April 5, 2020 at 5:43 am
This is so inhumane , I mean the employer is so wicked to a poor girl who came to her with the believe of living a better life over there.
Please the employer should suffer the Same public advertisement of nakedness.
Amaechi Okolo
April 5, 2020 at 5:05 am
This is unbelievable. At this generation. She is evil n must be punished.
Remi Adesina
April 5, 2020 at 3:49 am
This is beastly. Man inhumanity against a fellow being. The couple must be made to face the full wrath of the law if only to serve as a deterrent to others with similar heartlessness.
Doosuur
April 5, 2020 at 1:04 am
So inhumane. Shame on the employer. She might just be a lesbian.
Princess
April 5, 2020 at 12:16 am
This is sheer wickedness…The employer should suffer severely and made to go through the same thing that she did to the housemaid