It may be a cry for help, but that's still no reason to potentially cause severe harm to an innocent baby. A former domestic worker has sentenced to jail for adding tainting breast milk meant for a two-month-old child.
It was revealed in court that she had done so to scare her employers into sending her back home to Indonesia, The New Paper reports.
28-year-old Annisa had been a domestic helper for a family in Ang Mo Kio last year, where she was hired to perform daily household chores and take care of her employer's two-month-old baby.
She however, proved to be not much of a helper as she was reprimanded a number of times for not performing her chores up to her employer's standards over the three months she worked under them.
It was in August last year that Annisa found a bottle of PurerAire Eucalyptus oil in a storeroom, which she thought to be stain-removing chemical. She then poured the contents into two packets of breast milk which had been kept in the freezer.
When the female employer returned home later and check on the milk, she smelled a pungent odour. She inspected other bags and detected the second tainted packet of milk.
Suspecting something foul was abound, she told her husband about her suspicions and together they searched through their helper's belongings while Annisa was asleep. They uncovered the bottle of eucalyptus oil.
Later on they called the police after confirming that the milk smelled of the eucalyptus oil, and Annisa was arrested.
In court, Annisa said that she was a divorcee who simply wanted to return home to look after the mother. Her employers had previously refused to accede to her request to go back to Indonesia, and she carried out the dirty deed as an attempt to scare her employers into doing so.
Annisa has since been sentenced to jail for three years.
Photo: nerissa's ring via Flickr
It may be a cry for help, but that's still no reason to potentially cause severe harm to an innocent baby. A former domestic worker has sentenced to jail for adding tainting breast milk meant for a two-month-old child.
It was revealed in court that she had done so to scare her employers into sending her back home to Indonesia, The New Paper reports.
28-year-old Annisa had been a domestic helper for a family in Ang Mo Kio last year, where she was hired to perform daily household chores and take care of her employer's two-month-old baby.
She however, proved to be not much of a helper as she was reprimanded a number of times for not performing her chores up to her employer's standards over the three months she worked under them.
It was in August last year that Annisa found a bottle of PurerAire Eucalyptus oil in a storeroom, which she thought to be stain-removing chemical. She then poured the contents into two packets of breast milk which had been kept in the freezer.
When the female employer returned home later and check on the milk, she smelled a pungent odour. She inspected other bags and detected the second tainted packet of milk.
Suspecting something foul was abound, she told her husband about her suspicions and together they searched through their helper's belongings while Annisa was asleep. They uncovered the bottle of eucalyptus oil.
Later on they called the police after confirming that the milk smelled of the eucalyptus oil, and Annisa was arrested.
In court, Annisa said that she was a divorcee who simply wanted to return home to look after the mother. Her employers had previously refused to accede to her request to go back to Indonesia, and she carried out the dirty deed as an attempt to scare her employers into doing so.
Annisa has since been sentenced to jail for three years.
Photo: nerissa's ring via Flickr