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| Cynthia Lim will meet with Cambodian embassy officials today over Thursday’s report in the ‘Phnom Penh Post’. |
Woman lodges report to counter maid abuse claim
19 March 2012
By SEAN AUGUSTIN
New Straits Time (Malaysia)
CLEARING THE AIR: Malaysian accused of forcing maid to take drugs in Cambodian daily
PUTRAJAYA: A MOTHER of three lodged a police report on Saturday following allegations in a Cambodian newspaper that she had mistreated her Cambodian maid.
Cynthia Lim will meet with officials from the Cambodian embassy today to clear the air over the report that was published on Thursday in the Phnom Penh Post.
In the report, Im Meoun, 52, said her daughter, Phon Sophea, was forced to take drugs and was fed only once a day.
Meoun also claimed that her daughter had to work from 4am to 10pm, and that her contract expired last month but Lim would not allow her to go home and forced her to sign another contract to continue working.
Meoun has lodged a report with a human rights organisation in Cambodia.
"The truth is, she wakes up at 7.30 every morning, takes five meals a day and finishes her day with at least an hour in front of the television.
"The drugs given to her are by a doctor, but only when she is sick.
"She agreed to renew the contract but wanted to go back to see her mother. We had already booked her flight home," an annoyed Lim told the New Straits Times yesterday, saying the police report was to counter the allegations made in the newspaper.
Lim said Phon, who had worked with her for two years, has since rubbished the allegations but her mother has instructed her to acknowledge the newspaper report or risk being jailed for lying.
"This has not just caused us great inconvenience and cost of lost work days, but also mental distress."
4 comments:
Autopsy will confirm what happen to the victim body!
the law should side or give the benefit of the doubt to the victim, not the abuser. after all, there were cases of rampant abuses going on in malaysia on workers like maids, etc... the embassy should investigate serious with any allegation. there were death already from the abusing of maids in malaysia, so they can't ignore it and hope it goes away by itself. the law has to be strict with the employer and should give the victim the right to break out of the contract if the abuse is evidential and obvious with medical examination, etc. i say give the benefit of the doubt to the victim, not the employer, you know.
how many more death they want before they start doing something about the abuse? maybe cambodia ought to ban maids from working in malaysia if the abuse continue and disrespect to the existing law, etc!
What is the value proposition from the Khmer Embassy to prevent this kind of abuse from happening in the future?
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