Kevin Chelvam (left) is claiming trial to four charges related to the abuse of Myanmar maid Piang Ngaih Don. - KELVIN CHNG, HELPING HANDS FOR MIGRANT WORKERS
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): After a maid climbed out of a corridor window of an HDB flat to go to a coffee shop, members of her employer’s family sent messages in a group chat wishing that she should have jumped down and died instead, and insulted her with vulgarities.
The 24-year-old maid, who died nine months later from abuse, had left the flat belonging to nurse Isabella Celestine Cyril James, and was later found by her ex-husband’s friend having a meal with another maid at a coffeeshop.
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