A young domestic helper stood stranded on a window ledge in Bedok South on Friday after entertaining second thoughts about trying to run away from her employer via a rope of bedsheets.
Early that morning, the 23-year-old Indonesian maid tied several pieces of blankets, bedsheets and clothes together with a piece of black luggage at the end, and dangled the long line out of a window of her employer’s eighth-storey flat at Block 163, Bedok South Road.
She had only climbed down one floor when she decided not to proceed any
further, and stood on the ledge at the seventh floor before she was
found by a passing cleaner, reported Shin Min Daily News.
“I
was working, looked up and saw her,” said the cleaner, who gestured for
the maid to stay where she was, adding that she seemed to understand
him.
It is not known how long the maid had been standing on the ledge before she was found.
Police told Yahoo! Singapore that they received a call for assistance at 7:30am. It is believed that
officers who arrived then walked through the seventh-storey apartment,
addressing the maid in Malay and helping her to climb through the window
and into the house.
65-year-old Madam Su, who lived in the
seventh-storey flat, told reporters she was shocked when the police
knocked on her door that morning, and was quoted as saying that she was
afraid that the maid would lose her balance on her ledge as her windows
opened outwards.
The housewife later added that the maid started to cry after she had climbed into the seventh-floor flat.
Shin Min also reported that the maid said that her boss, for whom she had worked
for about three to four months, had slapped her, and she had been
afraid and upset.
Yahoo! Singapore understands that
officers who spoke to her at the scene brought her to a police station
for more questioning, and then sent her back to her agency. No injuries
were found on her, however.
It is also believed that police had
questioned the maid’s employer, who denied abusing the maid. The
employer is also understood to have said that the maid had run away on
previous occasions.
-- Yahoo!
e owner should get fk
at least the maid dun dare to go down ...
then a live will be gone if anything goes wrong
Why maid want to run away?
Is it the employer treat her badly?
Or is it the maid got blangla bf?
the maria watched too many jackie chan movies.................