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"She harmed a defenseless toddler" - As court sentences maid to 14months in prison - Edoman - 10-29-2020 "She harmed a defenseless toddler" - Mom kicks as court sentences her former maid to 14 months in prison for burning her baby with boiling water A Singapore woman, Amy Low Mei Liang has expressed her disappointment over the short prison sentence handed down to her former maid for badly burning her toddler with boiling water. The 30-year-old Myanmar maid was sentenced to 14 months behind bars for intentionally causing a burn, a crime that came to light in home surveillance footage. Taking to Facebook on Wednesday, October 28, hours after the sentencing, Amy accused the system of double standard. “Harming a defenceless toddler who can’t even have strength to pull back her hand when being forced to, yet it’s barely 14months (probably less than a year after deducting the holidays),” Low wrote. “Yes, only 14month of Jail sentence is miserably short. If it’s the helper that was abused, it would be 14yr of sentence for the employer?” she wrote. “It’s a double standard judgement!” she added. The abuse of her child came to light in January after the maid was filmed repeatedly dipping the then 16 months old girl’s hand into a boiling pot. Police announced the maid’s arrest a week after the incident happened on Jan. 14. Read Here The video showed the maid carrying the crying toddler into the kitchen and then dipping her left hand into the pot multiple times before running it under tap water. According to Low, her 8-year-old daughter was at home and called her father after hearing her sibling’s cries. The father returned home and took the toddler to the hospital to treat her second-degree burns. The wounds were healed about two weeks later. The maid initially denied she had deliberately hurt the toddler until her employers came forward with video evidence, the court was told at trial. The helper had only been working for the family for a month before the incident happened and, during that time, complained about not being able to care for the toddler and contacted her employment agency about transferring elsewhere. RE: "She harmed a defenseless toddler" - As court sentences maid to 14months in prison - Edoman - 10-29-2020 Maid caught on camera repeatedly dipping toddler’s hand into boiling water (graphic photos/video) Police in Singapore have arrested a maid accused of scalding a toddler’s hand by dipping it repeatedly into a boiling pot. This comes a week after the alleged incident was caught on video by the 16-month-old girl’s mother, Amy Low Mei Liang, who last night posted the clip online with her allegations. She indicated that the 45-second surveillance footage was filmed in her Buangkok kitchen while she and her husband were at work. She also posted photos of what appear to be the toddler’s scalded and burned hands. “I felt something was amissed [sic] and I decided to check the CCTV footage at home while waiting for the maid to be picked up. And what I saw was horrifying. The maid, she did it on purpose! It was never an accident! She took my daughter’s hand and dipped her hand inside a boiling pot. I was shaking throughout and made a police report immediately,” Low wrote. The child can be heard screaming in pain after her hand appears to be placed in the water at least twice by the maid in the clip. According to her Tuesday night post, the maid initially denied committing the act, saying that the toddler had touched the pot on her own. Low believed her at first but grew suspicious after the maid insisted she wanted to return to her home, and the maid's agency began arranging her transfer to another family. The couple was alerted to the incident after their 8-year-old daughter called the dad up at work to tell him about her injured sister, according to Low’s post, which had been shared 15,000 times as of Wednesday afternoon. When asked why she hurt the girl, the maid reportedly said she was told doing so would increase her chances of returning home, according to the Facebook post. She is reportedly from Myanmar. Low said the maid told her that an agency representative echoed the same sentiment. Low did not name the agency. She said the maid began working for her a month ago and had said she wanted to go home a week prior to the incident. But the situation appeared to be resolved after the employment agent met with the maid, according to Low. The 30-year-old maid was arrested Jan. 15 for voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous means, according to the police, who said their investigation is ongoing. Read the mother's post including the video below: Quote:"I never thought this would happened to my daughter. Because of commitments in life, both my husband and I have to work, hence we decided to hire a maid, to look after our 16 month old girl. Little did we know, this was the beginning of our nightmare. See more photos of the injured child below.. |