Singapore - An 18-year-old woman was jailed for 26 months after forcibly yanking out the two front teeth of an Indonesian maid and pouring boiling water on the victim, Singapore news reports said on Wednesday. Badingah, 29, was the victim of Nur Rizan Mohd Sazali, a Singaporean mother of one, amid a rampage of abuse by four people between June 2 and July 26 last year.
"Despite your youth, you have committed acts of appalling cruelty on a domestic maid," The Straits Times quoted District Judge Jill Tan as telling Nur Rizan.
Nur Rizan, wielding pliers, was assisted by Badingah's employer, Elsa Elyana Said, who held the maid's head still and forced her mouth open. She will be sentenced on October 16.
Nur Rizan's brother, Muhammad Iz'aan, 20, was jailed for six weeks for caning Badingah.
Also accused was the siblings' mother, Maselly Abdul Aziz, 38, who initially pleaded guilty to two charges of maid abuse.
In one of the punishments described in the district court, the maid was ordered to stand facing a door through an entire night with one leg off the ground and holding her ears, the report said. Muhamad Iz'aan caned her when she put the leg down.
The abusers accused the maid of theft, which Badingah denied.
The victim was assaulted in various "morbidly creative ways" in a campaign of "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment...amounting to torture," the newspaper quoted deputy public prosecutor Natalie Morris as saying.
Badingah, with extensive injuries, escaped by jumping out of the kitchen window of the second-storey flat.
