A severely depressed Indonesian domestic worker yielded to her psychotic affliction and strangled her employer's teenage daughter two years ago.
In court today, 30-year-old Tuti Aeliyah was sentenced to prison for 12 years for culpable homicide not amounting to murder after pleading guilty to the charge, TODAY reports.
Her mental instability led to an impaired judgement at the time of the offence.
The maid killed 16-year-old Shameera Basha Noor Basha at the family's Tampines flat on the morning of Nov 14, 2013, when Tuti when into the girl's room and smothered her, before struggling and stabbing the victim. Tuti then looped the girl's school pinafore around her neck and pulled, strangling the teen to death.
When the mother returned home around 12.30pm, Tuti told her that she had killed the girl. The mother sought help from a neighbour who then called the police.
In court, it was revealed that Tuti had been acting strangely in the months leading to the incident. Though there were no reports of ill treatment by her employer, the Indonesian started to express suicidal thoughts, lost weight and even declined to call home.
Though the judge sympathised with her mental condition, it was no excuse that an innocent youth was killed.
Photo: banspy via Flickr
A severely depressed Indonesian domestic worker yielded to her psychotic affliction and strangled her employer's teenage daughter two years ago.
In court today, 30-year-old Tuti Aeliyah was sentenced to prison for 12 years for culpable homicide not amounting to murder after pleading guilty to the charge, TODAY reports.
Her mental instability led to an impaired judgement at the time of the offence.
The maid killed 16-year-old Shameera Basha Noor Basha at the family's Tampines flat on the morning of Nov 14, 2013, when Tuti when into the girl's room and smothered her, before struggling and stabbing the victim. Tuti then looped the girl's school pinafore around her neck and pulled, strangling the teen to death.
When the mother returned home around 12.30pm, Tuti told her that she had killed the girl. The mother sought help from a neighbour who then called the police.
In court, it was revealed that Tuti had been acting strangely in the months leading to the incident. Though there were no reports of ill treatment by her employer, the Indonesian started to express suicidal thoughts, lost weight and even declined to call home.
Though the judge sympathised with her mental condition, it was no excuse that an innocent youth was killed.
Photo: banspy via Flickr