Sunday September 19, 2010
Maid forced into sex romp
By TAN SIN CHOW
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GEORGE TOWN: An Indonesian maid has claimed that she was abused by a couple and forced into a threesome sex romp with them. Her four-month ordeal ended when the couple felt they had had enough of her and chucked her by a roadside at Taman Cenderawasih in Nibong Tebal last Sunday, with RM30 to fend for herself.
She wandered around aimlessly for 12 hours before a good Samaritan took her to a police station in town the following day. George Town OCPD Asst Comm Gan Kong Meng said the victim, who looked traumatised and skinny, had burn and scald marks on her back and chest.
Tools of torture: Senior investigating officer ASP Mohd Khalil Khalid (left) showing an iron and a belt believed to have been used on the maid while ACP Gan looks on during the press conference in Penang.
She is being treated at the Penang Hospital for multiple bruises. A medical inspection showed there were tears in her private parts, ACP Gan said at a press conference at the Patani Road police station here yesterday. The 26-year-old maid from East Java claimed she was raped several times by her employer, a grass-cutting contractor, while his wife would beat her up if she did not give in to her husband’s sexual demands.
ACP Gan said the victim claimed the couple, aged 41 and 36, used a belt to hit her on the head, hands and legs. She also alleged that she was splashed with hot water and had her chest burnt with an iron. The maid said she started working for the couple in February at their apartment in Jelutong here but the abuses only began in May.
ACP Gan said police arrested the couple at 9.15pm on Friday after five days of trying to locate their apartment as the victim was not familiar with the area. “We had to take many pictures of apartments in Jelutong to show her. Once the apartment was identified, we asked around the neighbourhood before the suspects were nabbed,” he said.
The Indonesian consulate here has been informed of the case. ACP Gan said the husband had three previous convictions for drug and criminal offences. Police also seized a car belonging to the man as well as an iron, a belt, a comforter and a bedsheet from the apartment. The couple has four children aged five to 15.
