Mey Sichan had bruises on her body and weighed 26 kilogrammes when she was found dead on March 31. BERNAMApixPosted on 13 April 2012
The Sunday Daily, Malaysia
Last updated on 13 April 2012
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian couple were charged Friday with the murder of their Cambodian maid, who police suspect may have died of prolonged starvation.
The alleged abuse case of Mey Sichan (pix), who would have turned 24 in September, is one of many that have caused both Cambodia and Indonesia to suspend sending maids to Malaysia.
Hardware store owners Soh Chew Tong, 43, and his wife Chin Chui Ling, 40, were charged in a district court in northern Penang state over their maid's murder, government lawyer Nurdeenie Abdul Rashid said.
Murder convictions carry the mandatory death penalty by hanging. No plea was recorded, pending submission of a post-mortem report. The next court date is June 7, Nurdeenie said.
Mey Sichan was found dead by paramedics called by her employers on March 31. When found, she weighed 26 kilogrammes (57 pounds). She also had bruises on her body.
Police said she died from acute gastritis and ulcers likely due to lack of food over a long period. The maid had been working for the family for eight months.
In October, Cambodia imposed a temporary ban on sending domestic workers to Malaysia, heavily dependent on those from poorer regional countries to fill the positions shunned by locals.
The surprise move came after activists highlighted dozens of cases of sexual abuse, overwork and exploitation among the estimated 50,000 Cambodian women employed as domestic helpers in Malaysia.
Reports of abuse in Malaysia have frequently surfaced in recent years and also led Indonesia to stop sending domestic helpers to the country in 2009, prompting a rise in demand for Cambodians.
Indonesian maids are expected to arrive in Malaysia again from later this month, according to an Indonesian embassy official, after Malaysia pledged to better protect them, including granting them one off-day per week. - AFP
8 comments:
such cruel people. Malaysians are pretty egotistic, arrogant, and ignorance. What will the couple gain from starving their maid? Death sentence or self satisfaction?
They must hang her head with huge sign in the street to show other employers a lesson....DEATH SENTENCE MUST BE DONE.....!!!!
7 million hectares of farmland and many other economic life lines such as tourism industries,Plantation industry, mineral ind.,telecom ind. gas and fuel etc. are in Hanoi's hand so far.What can poor Khmer farmers rely on for their living?
That is why we have so many of them been killed or abused cross Asia.
If you look around you will find that there is non of our neighboring countries such as Laos or Vietnam have got these tragedies.
Incompetent politics of a corrupted Hun Sen is directly responsible for all of these demises.
Thank you Hanoi for choosing the world stupidest Prime minister for Cambodia.
True Khmer
I hope its truth that Malaysia law punish these coupe with the death sentence...Otherwise, I'm really pissed off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prosecuted these evil boss to the fullest that court allows.Teach all there people a lesson and shaw the world that your country is capable of enforce the law,to protect human rights.
For all humanities as the world communities we connected to one another help each others not hurts or abuses. Like this evil couples they deserving this kind of punishment....thanks the court that punished this couples...
my heart go out to Sy Chan,May your soul rest in peace because justice is served.
Thank you for prosecutes these couples to fit your laws..I've seen her picture it made me cried my tears rolled down on my checks and I asked myself why this couples did what they did to this innocence gal is beyond my comprehensions.
Thanks the court system..
khmers U.S.A..
Why ta hell they starved their employee(maids) to death?...I just can't do that man? People working and cleaning your house's mess...I wish I can lay my hand with the baseball bat on these couple man!!!!
Punished this couples to the fullest of your laws allows,please show the world whats your court makes off....please do the right things...do it for humanities...do it for justice ...do it for Sy Chan...the innocence girl...she did her works for less but pay with her life...because these f@#&#k BOSS is so evil...evil...evil...so evil...beyond comprehensive..Khmer U.S.A.
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