Published May 16, 2013
Associated Press
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – A court has sentenced a Malaysian couple to 24 years in prison for fatally starving their Cambodian housemaid.
Police
found the body of Mey Sichan at the couple's home in Malaysia's
northern Penang state in April last year. Medical reports said she
weighed only 26 kilograms (57 pounds).
The Penang High Court on Thursday convicted Soh Chew Tong and his wife, Chin Chui Ling, of causing the death.
Their lawyer could not immediately be contacted to comment on a possible appeal.
The death occurred nearly six months after Cambodia stopped sending women to work as maids in Malaysia because of alleged abuse.
Cases
involving employers who assaulted their domestic workers, mainly from
Indonesia, have occasionally strained Malaysia's ties with some of its
Asian neighbors over the past decade.
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Couple gets 24 years' jail for starving Cambodian maid to death
GEORGE TOWN: Hardware store owner Soh Chew Tong, 44, and wife Chin
Chui Ling, 42, were found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to
murder over the death of their Cambodian maid Mey Sichan, 24, who died
after prolonged starvation last year.
The
Penang High Court sentenced the couple from Bukit Mertajam to 24 years'
jail each, starting from the day they were arrested on April 1 last year.
3 comments:
My story is very similar. But I SURVIVED to be able tell my story one day if someone will listen to it.
The perpetrators were some very high profile wealthy Chinese Malaysians
in KL with extensive Asia wide business interests in retail and
property.
Evil Psychopaths of the highest order hiding behind their
social camouflage and continued prestige to this day. In ensuing years I
moved to another country due to marriage and learn't English so I could write &
tell people about it in my extensive memoirs that has been able to bring
myself closer to closure of my barbaric dehumanizing treatment, that 3
years later I still have nightmares. I would love to share my story with a meadia outlet that will listen to me.
(I am originally from Kampong Chhnang)
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