Maid sentenced to 30 weeks’ jail for abusing 76-year-old bedridden woman

SINGAPORE - A domestic worker who was stressed by her workload took it out on the elderly bedridden woman she was employed to care for by abusing her. On one occasion, the Myanmar national pressed the base of a water bottle against the mouth of the woman who suffers from arthritis and is incapable of defending herself. In another incident, Aye Aye Naing, 40, pulled the elderly woman, 76, by her hair into a seating position. On Monday (Dec 6), Aye Aye Naing appeared before a district court and was sentenced to 30 weeks' imprisonment for abusing the vulnerable woman. She was convicted of three charges of voluntarily causing hurt towards a vulnerable person. One charge under the same offence was taken into consideration for her sentencing. The court heard that Aye Aye Naing was employed by the victim's daughter and lived with the family in a flat in Yishun. Her assault came to light when the the maid's employer installed a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera in her mother's room after the elderly woman told her the helper was hitting her. Aye Aye Naing claimed the elderly woman had fallen down, and her employer initially gave her the benefit of the doubt. But CCTV footage, some of...