Employer Jailed in Maid’s Death
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From Times Wire Reports
A Singapore court jailed a woman for two weeks for negligence after she ordered her Indonesian maid onto the ledge of an eighth-floor condominium to hang laundry, court documents show. The maid fell to her death.
A district judge said Ngu Mei Mei, 37, who admitted to one count of negligence imperiling the life of her maid, Yanti, 22, was sentenced to jail to show that the court would not excuse employers who placed their maids’ lives in jeopardy.
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