by Elena Chong & Elizabeth Soh
HARROWING footage of a teenage Indonesian maid shaking, slapping, kicking and dropping her employer's one-year-old daughter was played in court yesterday.
Desi Kurnia, 17, was sentenced to 33 months in jail after pleading guilty to eight charges of ill-treating the child.
She was 16 when she committed the offences at her employer's home in the east, over a period of five days in late November and December 2009. Her age was originally given as 25.
The victim has made a full recovery.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Wong Woon Kwong said Desi, a transfer maid, had been told specifically not to discipline the child, now aged two.
Yet, the victim's grandmother noticed that Desi had hit the baby.
perhaps they can charge also the employment agency for failing to ascertain her age.
How come the parent allows some maid to take care of the child?
maybe that's how they were brought up. Someone who's grown up in a family of love and care wouldn't even deign to do that to another human being.