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Indonesian maid Kusmirah Mujadi knew that life with Jennicia Chow Yen Ping was going to be tough when she suffered her first beating just three days into the job. But the 19-year-old never expected to be running away seven months later with a bloody trail on her T-shirt marking where Chow had bitten her excruciatingly hard on the nipple the night before. Miss Kusmirah also left the Woodlands Circle flat on that pre-dawn morning with angry keloid scars on her arms and a host of other permanent reminders of the cuts, burns and beatings meted out by Chow during the seven unhappy months spent in her employment. A more humiliating reminder would come days later when her nipple fell off because it was so damaged from Chow's repeated bitings. Speaking to The Straits Times yesterday, Miss Kusmirah, now 20, recalled how her nightmare started soon after she began work on March 11, 2001. 'She scolded and beat me from the start. I didn't know why she did it, even though I kept saying sorry. I thought maybe she was insane,' Miss Kusmirah said, in a mixture of Malay and English. Chow, who lived in the flat with her insurance agent husband and three-year-old daughter, would frequently abuse Miss Kusmirah for not doing her work properly. The 30-year-old used a cane, a knife, a hot oven rack, boiling water, scissors and the back of a chopper to carry out her cruelty. She could not escape because Chow locked her inside the flat when she went to work. During the Mooncake Festival in September, Chow got angry when Miss Kusmirah did not cut the mooncake properly. Said Miss Kusmirah, who is well-endowed in spite of her slight frame: 'She told me that since I had cut the mooncake wrongly, she could not eat the mooncake and she had better eat my breast.' She dared not fight back as Chow was brandishing a knife, threatening to cut her nipple off. That was the first time Chow bit Miss Kusmirah's breasts. After that, it happened regularly. Chow would sometimes bite Miss Kusmirah's breasts through her T-shirt; sometimes she would lift up her shirt and bra so she could bite her bare skin. Chow's husband was never around to witness this bizarre behaviour. She took her solitary chance to flee at 5.50 am on Oct 18, 2001 when she saw the house key lying on the table. The family was sleeping. Chow, said to have been chronically depressed, was on Monday sentenced to five years in jail, for what was described as the worst case of maid abuse seen here.
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D had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
Wtfy?
"How can you ever hope to know the Beloved
Without becoming in every cell the Lover?
And when you are the Lover at last, you don't care.
Whatever you know or don't - only Love is real."
Evil will always triumph over good because good is dumb. - Dark Helmet
[ 10-04-2002: Message edited by: Niklas ]
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Niklas had this to say about Pirotess:
What gets me is: why did the maid keep going back?
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Niklas had this to say about Captain Planet:
What gets me is: why did the maid keep going back?
Read the story again.
She was locked in during the day when the family was out.
She probably lived in-house.
