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Force-fed vomit and family threatened with death: couple jailed for ‘worst of its kind’ abuse of domestic worker in Singapore
- Moe Moe Than, 32, was given little food, had limited use of the toilet and faced threats that her family in Myanmar would be killed if she spoke out
- The couple behind the abuse were also convicted in 2017 of abusing their Indonesian maid, but have yet to serve jail time
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A Singaporean couple was on Monday jailed for abusing a domestic worker from Myanmar after the pair force-fed her with a funnel, made her eat her own vomit and threatened to kill her family if she reported the mistreatment.
In a case described by Singapore prosecutors as “arguably one of the worst of its kind” in the city state, the married couple – who were sentenced two years ago over the abuse of another maid – beat and kicked their helper and made her clean the house in her underwear.
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Moe Moe Than, 32, was also given little food, had limited use of the toilet and faced threats that her parents in Myanmar would be killed if she reported the abuse, court documents showed.
District Judge Olivia Low on Monday sentenced the woman, Chia Yun Ling, to 47 months in prison and ordered her to pay a fine. Her husband, Tay Wee Kiat, a former information technology manager, was jailed for 24 months.
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They were ordered to pay compensation to the maid.
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