KUALA LUMPUR: A woman has reportedly been cleared of murdering her Indonesian maid, who was allegedly tortured and forced to sleep outside with a dog,...
M. A. S. Ambika, the accused in the case, is accompanied by policewomen. The picture was taken on Feb 10, 2018. — BBXpressA woman has reportedly been cleared of murdering her Indonesian maid, who was allegedly tortured and forced to sleep outside with a dog, with activists Monday criticising the “shocking” decision.
Adelina Sau died in February last year after being found outside her employer’s home in Penang, with her head and face swollen and covered in wounds. Her employer, S. Ambika, was charged with murder — an offence that carries a mandatory death sentence in Malaysia — shortly after the 21-year-old was rescued and died in hospital.Human rights lawyer Eric Paulsen called the decision “shocking and unacceptable”.
“This was one of the most public and harrowing abuse cases ever recorded and yet the Attorney-General’s Chambers somehow saw fit to drop the charge,“ Paulsen, a member of the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, toldDeputy Sports and Youth Minister Steven Sim, an MP from Bukit Mertajam, where Sau died, said the court decision was “as tragic as the death of Adelina”.
He said the employer may have been cleared due to a failure to get key witnesses, such as Sau’s parents, to testify at the trial, and called on Jakarta to lodge a protest.
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