Jakarta Globe | November 23, 2010
Jakarta. A Saudi Arabian woman has admitted to burning her Indonesian maid, Sumiati, with an electric iron and other forms of torture because she was “reckless” in performing her duties, it was reported on Tuesday.
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| The Saudi Investigation and Prosecution Bureau has formally charged and jailed the employer of tortured Indonesian maid Sumiati, pictured here recovering after surgery for her horrific injuries. (Antara Photo) |
The Saudi Gazette said the Saudi Investigation and Prosecution Bureau (IPB) had formally charged the employer, who was not identified, and sent her to the General Prison in Madina.
A source close to the IPB, the Gazette reported, said Sumiati had alleged that she had been abused over a period of three months.
“Her body was burned on many places, both legs were almost motionless, some parts of her skin on her head were removed and there were marks of old wounds on her body including skin loss on her lips and head, a fractured middle finger and a cut near an eye.”
The paper quoted Sultan Bin Dhahim, Head of the Lawyers’ Committee in Madina, as saying the employer had also been charged with premeditation to commit physical assault.
He said that such cases of abuse in Saudi Arabia were rare — claims that have previously been rejected as false by a number of migrant worker organizations.
The Gazette also reported that the employer’s son had initially contacted police to report the abuse.
“He also said that his mother tried to deceive the police by saying Mustapa had tried to commit suicide.”
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