‘Worse than a dog’: Family members insult maid in chat group after she left flat to eat in coffee shop


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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