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Kanetsugu Naoe
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Jul 11, 2011
Maid jailed 8 years for attacking girl, 7
By Selina Lum
An Indonesian maid stabbed her employee's seven-year-old daughter with a knife and she slashed the girl on her wrist with a chopper. -- ST PHOTO: ALBERT SIM
AN INDONESIAN maid who wrote in her diary that she was happy working for a family of four here went on a rampage with a knife and chopper, using them against her employer?s seven-year-old daughter.
This was in 2009, when Kumaeroh, who goes by only one name, was eight months into her job. She was preparing the girl for school on Sept 23 when she snapped without provocation, grabbed a knife from the kitchen and started stabbing the child.
Then she took a chopper and slashed the girl on her wrist.
On Monday, Kumaeroh, now 26, pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted culpable homicide and was jailed eight years by the High Court.
The maximum penalty is 15 years.
The victim in the attack, who cannot be named, is now in Primary 3. She has recovered, but still neither eats well nor is comfortable with strangers, said her mother, aged 42.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
Maid jailed 8 years for attacking girl, 7
By Selina Lum
An Indonesian maid stabbed her employee's seven-year-old daughter with a knife and she slashed the girl on her wrist with a chopper. -- ST PHOTO: ALBERT SIM
AN INDONESIAN maid who wrote in her diary that she was happy working for a family of four here went on a rampage with a knife and chopper, using them against her employer?s seven-year-old daughter.
This was in 2009, when Kumaeroh, who goes by only one name, was eight months into her job. She was preparing the girl for school on Sept 23 when she snapped without provocation, grabbed a knife from the kitchen and started stabbing the child.
Then she took a chopper and slashed the girl on her wrist.
On Monday, Kumaeroh, now 26, pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted culpable homicide and was jailed eight years by the High Court.
The maximum penalty is 15 years.
The victim in the attack, who cannot be named, is now in Primary 3. She has recovered, but still neither eats well nor is comfortable with strangers, said her mother, aged 42.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
