Singapore woman accused of acting as Indian goddess faces charges such as pulling teeth of ‘devotees’, making them eat faeces
- The 52-year-old Chinese-Singaporean has been remanded since October 2020, when she was first hauled to court and charged with 10 offences
- Another 40 charges were brought against her last week and she will return to court on November 17 for a pre-trial conference
A Chinese-Singaporean woman who allegedly pretended to be the embodiment of an Indian goddess has been handed several extra charges for offences such as forcing her “devotees” to eat human waste and pulling out their teeth.
Woo May Hoe, 52, now faces a total of 50 charges in Singapore, including cheating, causing hurt by means of a harmful substance and causing grievous hurt.
Woo has been remanded for about two years since October 2020, when she was first hauled to court and charged with 10 offences. Another 40 charges were then brought against her last week. The prosecution said all the charges had now been finalised.
Woo allegedly forced five people to swallow human faeces “as a punishment”.
Court documents also detailed several offences that Woo supposedly committed against a woman, now aged 43:
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Forced her to jump from the second floor of the Ubi Techpark building. She fractured both ankles
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Used a pair of pliers to forcibly extract the victim’s tooth
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Stabbed her forearm with a pair of scissors
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Hit her face with a bundle of canes, damaging her eye
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Hit her head and hand with a paint roller brush, fracturing her little finger
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Hit her head with a bottle and twisted her ear, causing it to bleed
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Poured essential oils into an eye, causing a “corneal abrasion”
Woo then allegedly instructed another woman to pull out the victim’s teeth and hit her buttocks with a mop.
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In addition to physical abuse, Woo is accused of cheating several victims of millions of dollars.
They handed over sums of S$3,000-100,000 (US$2,100-$69,600) for Woo to buy cows as a “form of donation” to redeem their sins, improve their medical conditions or prevent their parents from having poor health.
In 2012, a woman gave Woo S$500,000 for this purpose.
Woo also purportedly cheated the same woman into handing over another S$3.5 million, after lying that she had to sponsor the expansion of a school built by Amma (meaning “mother” in Tamil) at the same village.
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Some of Woo’s charges were of her conspiring to cheat banks into disbursing mortgage loans for various properties. The loan amounts ranged S$185,000-S$4.6 million.
Woo will return to court on November 17 for a pre-trial conference. She remains on remand and has been offered bail of S$200,000.
If convicted of causing hurt by forcing someone to swallow a harmful substance, she could be jailed up to 10 years and fined for each offence. Causing grievous hurt carries the same punishment.
Both offences also carry the possibility of caning, but women cannot be caned under the law in Singapore.
If convicted of cheating, she could similarly be jailed for up to 10 years and fined for each offence.
