Singapore domestic worker weeps while recounting employer’s sexual abuse
- The foreign domestic worker from Myanmar testified that her married employer groped her and forced her to perform a sex act on him
- She denied she was ever in a romantic relationship with him, and said she saw him as a brother or father figure
The worker, who cannot be named because of a court order to protect her identity, took the stand on the first day of Pal Muhammad Irzuan Mokhtar’s trial in a district court.
Irzuan, a 34-year-old Singaporean, is contesting one charge of using criminal force on her and two other molestation charges. Five other charges, including violating a protection order, were stood down for the time being.
He is accused of pulling the domestic helper’s hand in November 2018; exposing himself to her and forcing her to masturbate him in the kitchen a week later; and lying next to her while she was sleeping and groping her chest later in December that year. She said he was either drinking beer or smelled of alcohol on two occasions.
The worker testified that after the second alleged incident, she cleaned his semen from the floor with tissue paper, changed her T-shirt and placed both items in a plastic bag. She held onto the items because she wanted to show them to Irzuan’s wife and tell her what had happened, but the wife entered the room right after the incident and made a police report soon after.