Maid raped a week after arrival
SEVEN days after arriving here in June last year, an Indonesian woman was raped in her employer's own home.
The 24-year-old had been working as a domestic helper at the Holland Road residence for three days when she woke up at 11pm on June23 to find a man lying next to her.
She screamed but he covered her mouth with his hands and threatened to kill her.
Then over the next 1 1/2 hours, he raped her four times.
The court heard that the woman, who cannot be named, was so terrified, she waited for more than an hour after he had fled before running upstairs to wake her employers.
Robiul Bhoreshuddin Mondal, 37, a gardener, is now on trial for rape and outrage of modesty by sexually violating the woman.
He was also charged with housebreaking so as to commit the offence.
Seated between an Indonesian Embassy officer and a interpreter in court yesterday, the petite woman kept her head down while testifying.
She said that during the act, she had pleaded with the intruder to stop but he was relentless in his attacks.
It was her first sexual experience and when the attacker forced himself on her, the pain was if she had 'been poked with a knife', she said.
