Court of Appeal increases maid abuser's sentence to 14 months

Domestic worker from Myanmar suffered sustained physical abuse over nearly two years, resulting in legal blindness in her left eye and psychological trauma.

In Singapore, a court of appeal has restored a fourteen-month sentence for a woman who subjected her domestic worker to nearly two years of sustained physical abuse, reversing a lower court's reduction that had considered only a single incident in isolation. The ruling rests on a principle as old as justice itself: that harm cannot be measured by one moment alone, but must be understood as the sum of all that preceded it. For Than Than Soe, a young woman from Myanmar who arrived seeking work and left legally blind in one eye, the decision represents a recognition that her full suffering — not

Court of Appeal increases maid abuser's sentence to 14 months

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