Maid abuse is the maltreatment or neglect of a person hired as a domestic worker, especially by the employer or by a household member of the employer. It is any act or failure to act that results in harm to that employee.[1] It takes on numerous forms, including physical, sexual, emotional, and economic abuse. The majority of perpetrators tend to be female employers and their children.[2] These acts may be committed for a variety of reasons, including to instil fear in the victim, discipline them, or act in a way desired by the abuser.[1]
The United States Human Trafficking Hotline describes maid abuse as a form of human trafficking— it is "force, fraud, or coercion to maintain control over the worker and to cause the worker to believe that he or she has no other choice but to continue with the work," they stated.[3] Although it can occur anywhere, it is most commonly experienced amongst domestic workers in Singapore.
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Maidabuse is the maltreatment or neglect of a person hired as a domestic worker, especially by the employer or by a household member of the employer....
remaining other charges of maidabuse and removing evidence of the maidabuse. Since July 2023, Chelvam was undergoing trial for his abuse of Piang, and he was...
'tortured' maid". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 December 2016. Vandenberg, Martina E.; Bessell, Sarah (2016). "Diplomatic Immunity and the Abuse of Domestic...
part in the killing, was instead given a jail term of nine months for maidabuse and failing to make a police report on her husband's offences. In 2000...
Daughter In Abusing Myanmar Helper To Death Gets 14 Years' Jail". Must Share News. 9 January 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2023. "Fatal Myanmar maidabuse: More...
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in large numbers to work as maids or other roles of domestic service, and are often vulnerable to multiple forms of abuse. An ayi[definition needed] works...
attending college. Land has also written several articles about maid service work, domestic abuse and poverty in the United States. Land grew up between Washington...
sentence ever meted out to a convicted maidabuser. Ng's 30-year-old wife was also jailed nine months for maidabuse; however, due to her gender, she was...
Morning Post. Hong Kong. pp. A10. "Hong Kong woman guilty in Indonesian maidabuse case". Associated Press. Retrieved 10 February 2015. "NGO 'far from surprised'...
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Merah office. Over there, later in the afternoon, Ng again physically abused the maid over not properly caring for the children. This caused Sundarti to...
Mar Nwe, a foreign maid from Myanmar, used a knife to stab her employer's mother-in-law, who was alleged to have abused the maid. The 70-year-old elderly...
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their work performance (especially Juminem), which led to the maids perceived they were abused by Ang and thus planned the killing a week ahead before they...
worked as maids in Singapore and other countries as a result of both the Nancy Gan murder case and the Erwiana Sulistyaningsih maidabuse case from Hong...
Asia and the Pacific. Deveraj, Samuel (29 March 2021). "Average of 270 maidabuse reports made each year from 2017 to 2020". The New Paper. SPH Media. "10...
Faizal was the prosecution of Gaiyathiri Murugayan for the abuse and murder of her Myanmar maid Piang Ngaih Don, who died in July 2016. Gaiyathiri was initially...
prevented from hiring new maids. Al-Tabtabie, a member of parliament's human rights panel, argued that the phenomenon of maidabuse "has lately increased...
one of the worst cases of maidabuse in Singapore. Ng was later convicted of five charges of culpable homicide and maidabuse, after the prosecution reduced...
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(October 25, 2021). "Apple once threatened Facebook ban over Mideast maidabuse". AP. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October...
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