Source: South China Morning Post
Date: August 24, 2013
A couple forced their domestic helper to put on a diaper then tied her to a chair before leaving her without water or food while they went for a five-day holiday in Thailand with their children, the District Court heard yesterday.
This was just one incident related by the prosecution in the trial of Tai Chi-wai, 42, and his wife, Catherine Au Yuk-shan, 41, who are facing one count of false imprisonment, one of assault and six of inflicting grievous bodily harm on the maid between October 2010 and October last year. The couple, who deny the charges, are also said to have beaten Kartika Puspitasari with a bicycle chain and a shoe, and scalded her on the face and arms with a hot iron.
Au allegedly slashed the young Indonesian woman on her hands and stomach with a paper cutter, and banged the helper's head on a tap so hard it left a scar after accusing her of failing to clean the toilet properly.
Whenever the couple left the house or went to bed, they tied her up, the court was told.
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