Dera anak majikan

Oleh Mohd Sabran Md Sani

KUALA LUMPUR: Seorang pembantu rumah warga Indonesia dihadapkan ke Mahkamah Majistret di sini, semalam, atas tuduhan mendera anak majikannya berusia tiga tahun di sebuah kondominium di sini, pada 28 Ogos lalu.

Reni Neken, 27, dari Kupang, Indonesia, didakwa mendera Goh Ceng Yee, dengan menendang, memijak dan menolak mangsa di ruang tamu kediaman ibu bapanya yang juga majikan tertuduh di No A2-27-08, Putramas 2 Condo, Jalan Kuching.Tertuduh yang berkhidmat sebagai pembantu rumah sejak 23 Mac lalu, didakwa melakukan perbuatan itu antara jam 3.25 petang hingga 3.40 petang, pada 28 Ogos lalu.

Reni didakwa mengikut Seksyen 31(1)(a) Akta Kanak-Kanak 2001 yang boleh dihukum penjara maksimum 10 tahun atau denda atau kedua-duanya jika sabit kesalahan serta dihukum mengikut seksyen sama.

Wanita itu mengaku bersalah atas pertuduhan terbabit, sebelum Majistret Azniza Mohd Ali menetapkan 2 November depan untuk menjatuhkan hukuman serta mendengar fakta kes atas pertuduhan disabitkan.

Pendakwaan dilakukan Cif Inspektor Muhammad Mohd Jais.Sementara itu dalam prosiding berkenaan, pihak pendakwaan membantah sebarang jaminan berikutan tertuduh adalah warga asing.Bagaimanapun Reni yang tidak diwakili peguam bela memohon jasa baik mahkamah supaya memaklumkan perkara itu kepada agensi pekerjaannya di negara ini."Agensi pekerjaan saya harus tahu mengenai perkara ini. Dia tidak tahu masalah saya dan tidak ada orang yang mahu jamin saya pada hari ini (semalam)," katanya dalam rayuan di hadapan Azniza.

Akhbar sebelum ini melaporkan, seorang pembantu rumah warga Indonesia dikatakan berlagak samseng apabila kerap membelasah serta memukul dua anak majikannya ketika ibu bapa mangsa keluar bekerja pada siang hari.Tindakan tidak berperikemanusiaan pembantu rumah terbabit disedari ibu bapa kanak-kanak terbabit selepas anak perempuan mereka yang berusia tiga tahun sering mengadu sakit pada badan dan perut.

Kejadian itu yang kerap kali berlaku menyebabkan majikan terbabit secara sulit memasang kamera web pada komputer untuk merakam gerak-geri pembantu rumah terbabit ketika ketiadaannya di rumah.

Pasangan suami isteri terbabit yang berusia 29 dan 26 tahun terkejut apabila rakaman pada kamera web menunjukkan pembantu rumah itu mendera dan memukul anak mereka sesuka hati.Pembantu rumah itu didakwa turut memukul seorang lagi anak lelaki mangsa yang berusia setahun dan perkara itu terbongkar apabila majikan terbabit terserempak dengan tindakan ganas pembantu rumahnya ketika pulang mengejut pada tengah hari untuk meninjau keadaan anaknya.

Tertuduh juga sebelum ini pernah nekad menyabung nyawa menuruni tingkat 16 kondominium sama dengan mengikat beberapa pakaiannya untuk dijadikan tali dalam cubaan melarikan diri daripada majikannya.Tindakan tertuduh itu hampir memerangkap diri apabila 'tali' dibuatnya menggunakan semua pakaiannya serta tuala, selimut dan pakaian dalam hampir putus sebelum dia panik dan tergantung di celah bangunan pada tingkat 13 kondominium setinggi 30 tingkat itu.

Kejadian itu bagaimanapun disedari orang ramai yang ada di tempat kejadian sebelum memaklumkan ahli persatuan bomba sukarela Wilayah Persekutuan yang kebetulan memberi ceramah di kawasan terbabit.Mangsa kemudian diselamatkan dengan menggunakan tali sebelum dibawa masuk melalui tingkap rumah di tingkat 12 kondominium berkenaan.

Betrayed by former maid

Friday September 7, 2007

PENANG: An Indonesian man was arrested in connection with a rape-cum-robbery case involving a 38-year-old businesswoman in Tanjung Bungah here.

George Town deputy OCPD Supt Gan Kong Meng said the man, a construction worker, was picked up at about 3am in Tanjung Tokong on Wednes- day.
“He was the second suspect arrested in connection with the incident on Monday.
“We are looking for another Indonesian man, whom we have identified, to assist in investigations into the case,” he said.

An Indonesian woman, who was the victim’s former maid, was picked up in Datuk Keramat on Tuesday, he said yesterday.
She was believed to have passed the apartment keys to the duo, he said.
The businesswoman was sleeping when the duo entered her bedroom at about 4.30am that day. They then blindfolded and tied her up before raping her.

They ransacked her apartment before fleeing with her hand-phone, cash and several bottles of liquor totalling more than RM4,000.

Maid kicked, stomped child

By MUZLIZA MUSTAFA

SHE was kicked so hard that she was sent sprawling to the floor.
When the three-year-old got up, the maid grabbed her by the hand and started kicking her again repeatedly. Again, she was sent sprawling like a rag doll.

Like a woman possessed, the maid repeatedly stomped on the girl’s frail body. She stopped after a while, but continued stomping on the girl moments later.
This cruel act by an Indonesian maid was recorded by a young couple using a webcam installed in the living room of their condominium in Jalan Kuching.
But it could have been a different story if the couple had not had the presence of mind to make the recording.

When confronted on Tuesday, the 18-year-old maid allegedly tried to jump off the couple’s fourth fl oor condominium balcony, prompting a cleaner to call the police.
When the cops arrived, she told them that she had been assaulted by the couple.
Police then hauled the employers, their children and the maid to the Sentul police station for questioning.

The couple spent hours explaining what had happened, and it was during questioning that they produced the footage to back up their claim that their daughter had been abused.
The couple, who had been married for three years, also claimed that the maid had abused their one-year-old son as well. They lodged a report on the alleged abuse the next day.
The couple had told police that they had installed the webcam two weeks ago after their daughter frequently complained of stomach pain.
When they asked the maid, she allegedly told them that it could be because the girl took too much yogurt drinks.

Suspicious, the couple decided to install a webcam on the personal computer in the living room.
In the fi rst week, they caught the maid abusing their youngest. They confronted her and warned her not to repeat it.

On Tuesday, she did it again — this time, the couple’s threeyear- old girl was the target.
But before they could lodge a complaint with the authorities, the maid turned the tables around.
When police arrived after being alerted by the cleaner, the maid told police that she had been assaulted.

The maid sustained injuries to the head and several other parts of her body. She was sent to Kuala Lumpur Hospital.
Police are investigating whether the injuries had been self-infl icted or caused by others.
The maid, in her police report, had claimed that the couple was responsible for the injuries.
It is learnt that the maid’s 29- year-old female employer, who works with a shopping mall in the city, had returned home when she felt “uneasy” while working.

She felt the need to check on her maid and children.
Her husband of three years, a 26-year-old computer programmer, arrived later. It was when they checked the recording that they discovered what the maid had done to their daughter.
It was the third time unlucky for the couple. Their fi rst two maids ran away after working with them for less than a year.

The maid allegedly involved in the abuses had been working with them for more than a year.
The Malay Mail spoke to the couple who said their children had been sent to Kuala Lumpur Hospital for medical check-ups.

The husband declined to give The Malay Mail access to the footage of the alleged incident.
“We are afraid of the impact it might have on the children. We are sorry,” he said.
The wife said she did not know if they would get a maid after the episode.
“There are those lucky enough to get good maids, and there are those who are not as fortunate,” she said.

Kuala Lumpur CID chief senior Assistant Commissioner II Ku Chin Wah confi rmed that police were investigating both reports.
He said police have also retrieved the recordings from the couple.
“We are also investigating the maid’s claim that the couple had infl icted injuries on her with a weapon,” he said.
Ku said the couple was released early yesterday after police recorded their statements.

The maid has been remanded.

'BIBIK SETAN!'

By PEARL LEE

ON Monday, 11-month-old Mohd Naim Alma Zaadi died.
He had allegedly been abused by his Indonesian maid.
Yesterday, at the Petaling Jaya magistrate’s court, police applied for an extension on her remand order.

When the family heard that she would be there, they decided to give her a ‘reception’.
Seething with anger, they hurled abuse at the maid who cowered and covered her face as she was brought in to court.

“Bibik setan! Tak payah tutup muka tu, tak payah malu, buka jer muka tu; setan, setan!” they yelled. BIBIK setan! Tak payah tutup muka tu, tak payah malu, buka jer muka tu; setan, setan! ( Yo u ’re an evil maid. No need to cover you face, just show your evil face!”) Those were among the abuse hurled by the relatives of 11-month-old Mohd Naim Alma Zaadi to his Indonesian maid, who was remanded in connection with the toddler’s death.

Mohd Naim’s relatives came in full force at the Petaling Jaya ma- gi s t ra t e ’s court yesterday during the granting of an extension to the maid’s remand order.
They included Mohd Naim’s sib- lings, cousin, grandmother, uncle and aunt. They came at 2pm.
His parents, Norashikin Mohd Ali and Alma Zaadi Annwar, were not there as they were still griev- ing over his death.

“We are here to give her a piece of our mind. His brother and sis- ter are also here to represent their p a re nt s, ” said Mohd Naim’s grand- mother, Hanipah Abdul Jalil, 67.
Mohd Naim died on Monday at 12.30am at Subang Jaya Medical Centre after being warded the week before.

The toddler was brought to the hospital on Aug 22, when the maid called and told Norashikin that he had had two epileptic fits. However, doctors found that he had a cracked skull.
They told Norashikin that the crack was fresh and suspected that it could be due to abuse.
The maid was then remanded by police. After the toddler died, the case was reclassified as murder.

“How does one explain to a four-year-old boy that he will never see his baby brother again,” said Hanipah.
This is the predicament faced by the family in trying to explain Mohd Naim’s death to his brother, Mohd Naufal.
“He cried when he saw his mother crying after performing her evening prayers yesterday, but he does not really know what’s going on.” “He had been asking us about his brother, and we told him that God loves Mohd Naim and had taken him back,” Hanipah said.
Speaking to The Malay Mail out- side the court yesterday, Hanipah said Naim was her 16th grandchild and the youngest.

She said the last time she saw him was at her home in Kuantan, a week before he was warded.
“It breaks my heart each time I realise that I will never see my grandson again,” she added.
Mohd Naim’s aunt, Noor Adzilah Mohd Salih, 38, said Mohd Naufal and his six-year-old sister, Nurul Nasuha, were at the court because they wanted to see the hantu who had allegedly caused Mohd Naim’s death .

“I feel bad because I was the one who recommended the maid agency to my sister-in-law,” s he said.
“We are here to support the parents and the other family members who are all grieving at ho me, ” she said.

Nurul Nasuha, who was waiting anxiously for bibik’s arrival, kept asking her aunt when she would arrive. She sat up straight when she spotted the maid arriving in a police van.
The little girl was also seen yelling at the maid when she was brought to court yesterday.
Magistrate Maimoonah Aid ex- tended the remand order to Sept 5 after an application was made by the prosecuting officer.

Baby dies of head injuries

SUBANG JAYA: The 11-month-old baby, who was battling for his life after allegedly being abused by a foreign maid, died at the Subang Jaya Medical Centre (SJMC) yesterday.
A post-mortem at the Serdang Hospital revealed that Mohd Naim Alma Zaadi's death was due to head injuries.

District OCPD Asst Comm Zainal Rashid said the police have reclassified the case as murder.
“The 32-year-old Indonesian maid, who was arrested on Saturday, is under police custody until Wednesday (tomorrow), pending further investigations,” he said.

Final goodbye: Alma Zaadi together with his wife Norashikin and their children Nurul Nasuha and Mohd Naufal sprinkling flower petals on Mohd Naim's grave at the Muslim cemetery in Subang Jaya yesterday.

The toddler was admitted to SJMC after his father, Alma Zaadi Annwar, 36, noticed that his son looked ill at about 4pm on Wednesday.
About two hours earlier that day, he received a phone call from the maid saying that the child was crying uncontrollably.

Mohd Naim: Died after slipping into a coma. He rushed home to pacify his son and then returned to work.
Later, the maid called again with the same complaint.
Suspecting something amiss, the company director rushed his son to SJMC. Mohd Naim later slipped into a coma.

The toddler, the youngest of three siblings, was laid to rest at the Muslim cemetery in USJ 21 here after zohor prayers yesterday.
Met at the burial ground, his mother, Norashikin Mohd Ali, 37, said although she had noticed some bruises on her son, she was not sure how he had sustained it.
“He had just begun to take baby steps and I am still not sure if the bruises were due to an accident or abuse.

“I hope the Government will make it compulsory for all maids to go through a psychiatric evaluation. Our maid did not show any aggressive demeanour for the three months that she worked with us,” said the assistant manager.

The baby’s uncle, Redzuan Yahaya, 47 said the maid showed no signs of remorse when he told her the chances of the baby’s survival was 50-50.
“Even when I told her that she was going to be questioned by the police, she merely answered ‘OK’, which is quite surprising,” he said.

Abused toddler dies

By MOHD YAAKOB YUSOF

IN two weeks, toddler Mohd Naim Alma Zaadi would have celebrated his first birthday, but the suspected abuse victim died at Subang Jaya Medical Centre at 12.30am yesterday.

His mother, Norashikin Mohd Ali, 37, was with him when a doctor delivered the bad news.“I was with him when I realised something was wrong. I called the nurse who later called the doctor. A few minutes later, I was told that he was gone,” she said.

Mohd Naim’s body was taken to Serdang Hospital at 3am for an autopsy and was buried at USJ22 Muslim cemetery in Subang Jaya yesterday afternoon.The toddler was brought to the hospital last Wednesday when Norashikin’s maid called and told her that Mohd Naim had two epileptic fits.He had been suffering from epileptic fits after a fan fell on his head last month.The doctors found a crack on his skull, which caused his brain to swell and bleed, following an X-ray and CT scan after they found bruises on his body.The doctors told Norashikin that the crack was fresh and suspected that it could be due to abuse.

Last Thursday, police remanded the maid until tomorrow. The remand is expected to be extended.Norashikin said she had discovered several bruises on her son’s body before but did not suspect anything amiss. “I am shocked. We treated the maid like family and this is how she repaid our kindness,” said Norashikin at the cemetery.

She said a police officer told her that her second child, Mohd Naufal, had also been allegedly abused by the maid.“I was told that my four-year-old had been locked in a storeroom when my husband and I were at work,” she claimed.She said she and her husband, Alma Zaadi Annwar, 36, will think twice before hiring another maid.“This is what happens when maid agencies do not screen the workers properly,” she said.It is learnt that the couple is considering suing the agency over the incident.It was the couple’s third maid. The first maid had worked with them for three years while the second stayed for couple of weeks before running away.Most of the toddler’s relatives described the maid as a “good actress”.

One of them, who declined to be named, said they had seen the maid several times, including during a family gathering at Cameron Highlands in June.“She seemed like a kind person and we did not expect such an incident,” the relative said.“She stayed at my sister’s house in Subang Jaya after Mohd Naim was sent to hospital.”She claimed the maid was panicky the whole night.“She told us that Mohd Naim fell from a television rack but a police officer said that she told them he fell from the stairs.”It is learnt that police had taken statements from several family members and neighbours.

Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said the case, which was initially classified as child abuse, was reclassified to murder after the toddler died.

'Kami tak maafkan dia'

Oleh Iskandar Shah Mohamed

SUBANG JAYA: "Bunga kami beri, najis yang dia balas. Kami tidak akan maafkan dia sampai bila-bila. Tunggu detik 'perhitungan' di Padang Mahsyar kelak," kata Norashikin Mohd Ali, 37.Dia tidak dapat menahan sebak apabila bayi kesayangannya mati semalam selepas lima hari koma, dipercayai akibat didera pembantu rumah. Pada 22 Ogos lalu, bayi berkenaan, Mohd Naim Almazaadi yang berusia 11 bulan, terlantar dipercayai akibat didera berdasarkan kesan lebam pada badan dan cedera di kepala di rumahnya di Putera Height, di sini.Bayi itu dikejarkan ke sebuah pusat rawatan di sini, jam 4 petang selepas pembantu rumah warga Indonesia terbabit mendapati dia tidak sedarkan diri.

Hasil pemeriksaan awal doktor menemui kesan lebam dan bengkak di kepala bayi itu sebelum menghubungi polis. Berikutan itu, pembantu rumah berusia 32 tahun itu ditahan bagi membantu siasatan berhubung kes penderaan bayi berkenaan.Difahamkan, ahli keluarga Mohd Naim menerima panggilan daripada pembantu rumah itu jam 1 tengah hari, memberitahu bayi berkenaan terkena sawan.Selepas lima hari bertarung nyawa dengan menggunakan mesin sokongan pernafasan, bayi malang yang juga anak bongsu pasangan berkenaan akhirnya menghembuskan nafas terakhir di Pusat Perubatan Subang Jaya (SJMC), kira-kira jam 1 pagi semalam.

Norashikin berkata, sebelum ini dia dan suami serta saudara-mara menganggap pembantu rumah yang digelar 'Bibik' itu seperti ahli keluarga sendiri dan melayannya dengan baik. "Sejak mengambilnya bekerja Mei lalu, kami tak pernah berkasar dan sentiasa melayannya seperti saudara sendiri. Malah, kami mempercayainya dan menyerahkan tanggungjawab sepenuhnya kepada dia untuk menjaga anak-anak kami."Selain itu, kami tidak melayan dia (Bibik) seperti pembantu rumah lain yang kebiasaannya melakukan segala kerja rumah. Saya hanya menyuruhnya menghidangkan makanan yang saya masak di atas meja makan.

"Bagaimanapun, segala kepercayaan kami musnah selepas dia tergamak melakukan penderaan terhadap bayi saya yang tidak berdosa itu," katanya ketika ditemui di Tanah Perkuburan Islam USJ 22 di sini, semalam.Jenazah Mohd Naim dituntut jam 11.40 pagi di Hospital Serdang sebelum disembahyangkan di Masjid Al-Falaq, USJ9 dan dikebumikan.

Menurut Norashikin, dia turut terkejut apabila anak keduanya, Mohd Naufal, 4, mendakwa Bibik pernah mengurungnya dalam stor rumah, selain menarik telinga dengan kuat, kononnya sebagai 'denda' kerana melakukan kesalahan kecil seperti tidak menyiapkan kerja sekolah."Pengakuan itu dibuat Naufal selepas disoal bapa saudara dan saudara-mara terdekat sejurus selepas kejadian menimpa Mohd Naim. Ia tentunya memeranjatkan kami sekeluarga," katanya.Ditanya sama ada akan mengambil pembantu rumah warga Indonesia lagi selepas itu, Norashikin berkata, dia akan berfikir ratusan kali kerana bimbang perkara sama berulang."Sebelum ini, kami pernah mengupah dua pembantu rumah juga warga Indonesia.

Bagaimanapun, kedua-duanya menimbulkan masalah termasuk melarikan diri dan mencuri wang serta barang keperluan rumah," katanya. Sehubungan itu, dia berharap pembantu rumah 'kejam' berkenaan diadili dan dikenakan hukuman setimpal dengan perbuatannya. Seorang ahli keluarga terdekat mangsa yang enggan dikenali berkata, dia tidak menyangka pembantu rumah yang dianggap baik itu pada hakikatnya tidak berperikemanusiaan."Selepas bayi berkenaan dimasukkan ke SJMC minggu lalu, pembantu rumah terbabit berkelakuan aneh dan seolah-olah menggelabah kerana sering kali meminta ubat penahan sakit dan mengadu sakit kepala."Apabila ditanya punca bayi itu koma, dia memutarbelitkan fakta dengan memberi pelbagai alasan termasuk kononnya bayi itu terjatuh dari tangga dan rak televisyen," katanya.

Sementara itu, Ketua Polis Selangor, Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar, berkata kes itu kini disiasat mengikut Seksyen 302 Kanun Keseksaan kerana kesalahan membunuh.Menurutnya, kes itu sebelum ini hanya disiasat mengikut Seksyen 311 (A) Akta Kanak-Kanak atas kesalahan melakukan penderaan.Khalid berkata, hasil siasatan awal mendapati beberapa kesan cubitan ditemui pada kaki serta tangan selain kesan cekik di leher termasuk kecederaan di kepala bayi berkenaan dipercayai akibat dipukul.

Amah larikan bayi 10 bulan

KUALA LUMPUR: Seorang bayi berusia 10 bulan hilang, dipercayai dilarikan pembantu rumah warga Indonesia ketika ibunya tiada di rumah, di Taman Bukit Cheras, dekat sini, Jumaat lalu.Ibu bayi berkenaan, Sabrina Sulaiman, 27, berkata beliau meninggalkan Mohammad Haqimi Mohd Zuraimi, bersama pembantu rumahnya kira-kira jam 12.45 tengah hari untuk menghantar ibu saudaranya ke pejabat.

“Saya membawa anak dan pembantu rumah tinggal di rumah ibu saudara di Cheras sejak Isnin lalu kerana suami ke luar negara atas urusan perniagaan,” katanya ketika dihubungi di sini, semalam.Berikutan kejadian itu, beliau membuat laporan polis di Balai Polis Taman Cempaka, Cheras, kelmarin selepas 24 jam anaknya hilang dan sesiapa yang mempunyai maklumat diminta menghubunginya menerusi talian 012-3424042.

Sementara itu, Ketua Polis Daerah Cheras, Asisten Komisioner Rusli Ahmad, ketika dihubungi mengesahkan kejadian itu.

Suami, pembantu rumah ditahan

Oleh Nazarali Saeril

KLANG: Penahanan dua pembantu rumah warga Indonesia serta seorang pengurus kilang berusia 42 tahun dipercayai dapat membantu menyelesaikan kes pembunuhan seorang wanita yang ditemui mati dengan kesan kelar di leher, dalam bilik di rumahnya di Taman Bayu Perdana, di sini, petang kelmarin.Kedua-dua pembantu rumah berusia lingkungan 20-an itu, seorang bekerja dengan mangsa manakala seorang lagi bertugas untuk jiran mangsa, ditahan polis tidak lama selepas kejadian ngeri terbabit.Ketua Polis Daerah Klang, Asisten Komisioner Rodwan Mohd Yusuf, berkata pihaknya turut menahan pengurus kilang yang juga suami mangsa untuk membantu siasatan.“Setakat ini, polis masih menumpukan usaha soal siasat terhadap ketiga-tiga individu terbabit.

“Dalam masa sama, polis juga masih cuba mengesan senjata digunakan dalam pembunuhan. Tiada suspek lain yang diburu,” katanya di sini, semalam.Mangsa berusia 41 tahun, ditemui mati dalam keadaan separuh bogel selain kesan kelar di leher. Wanita yang mempunyai tiga anak itu dipercayai dirogol sebelum dibunuh dalam kejadian kira-kira pada jam 3 petang.Kes disiasat mengikut Seksyen 302 Kanun Keseksaan dan jika sabit kesalahan, digantung sampai mati mandatori.Ketiga-tiga individu terbabit sudah dikenakan perintah tahanan reman selama tujuh hari di Mahkamah Majistert Klang, semalam.