Singapore court jails maid for four weeks after she had hit bedridden elderly woman with dementia

SINGAPORE, July 26 (The Straits Times/ANN): A maid, who grew annoyed and tired over taking care of a bedridden woman with dementia, used tissue paper to wipe her in a rough manner.

She then hit the 74-year-old on her face.

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