H.K. employer fined for maltreating Pinoy maid

A Hong Kong court fined a woman for pouring hot water on her Filipino maid, news reports said Thursday.


The 68-year-old woman was fined US$1,300 after she poured hot water on her maid's chest. She also hit the maid on the head with a bowl for failing to boil water, the South China Morning Post reported.


The woman's lawyer argued against a custodial sentence because of the employer's age and frail health.


The case follows a number of convictions of Hong Kong employers in recent years for maltreating their Filipino maids.


Another woman was given an 18-month prison sentence for branding her maid's hands with a hot iron after she accidentally scorched a camisole she was ironing.


More than 200,000 women from the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand work as live-in maids for Hong Kong families, earning a government-set minimum wage of around US$420 per month.
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This would be a good lesson for some of the abusive employer who maltreat these people.

fined? i think that she should be jailed!!!

fined? it's ok if it was only hot water but hitting the head is assault. that's enough grounds for imprisonment. discrimination!!!!!!

I do not know about the laws in Hongkong?

So we could not comment on that decision?