Nabilah Hamid 11ct

Dear Mr. Lee Han Shin,

        I am writing to you with regards to your article ‘Maid Abuse in Singapore’, published in the ‘Business Times’ newspaper, I would just like to express that many of the points portrayed in the article had utterly shocked and disgusted me. Ms Chasanah was 19 year old and was already obligated to work as a maid in a foreign country, so that she could support her family. It is extremely heartbreaking to even try to imagine the 9 months of regular physical and emotional pain Ms Chasanah had to go through. Ms Chasanah had no one to turn to, had no one to ask for help and felt that she had no where to report it to. Now it’s resulted her weighing 36kg, 200 injuries on her body and dead.

There was another article accusing Singapore of maid neglect. I believe this is quite a difficult topic to converse or argue because it is fairly easy to blame Singapore or any other country, when there are many factors like your article suggesting so. I don’t believe that Singapore is purely at fault with complete maid neglect. Cases like these are not very rare in other countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, and even in my own country, Brunei Darussalam. It is a disgrace to have the name maid neglect, there’s no harm in hiring domestic staff but they should be treated with the same respect given to a colleague.

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Naturally, Mr. Ng did get sentenced to jail and therefore that means some justice was served. What was very appalling about Mr. Ng Hua Che’s final judgment, however, was that the juries declined Ms Chasanah’s death from ‘murder’ to ‘manslaughter’. This would mean that what Mr. Ng committed was somewhat an accident and that he had no intensions of killing Ms Chasanah. Clearly all of that is nonsense and I strongly agree that the case certainly does not close there.

Some people really have the nerve to start taking risks these days, however, I really can’t seem to ...

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