24yo maid runs away after 4 months with her employer; she can’t remember things, take instructions or speak English well

 

A 24-year-old Filipino maid ran away after being with her employers for four months. In an anonymous post to Facebook group FDW in Singapore (working conditions forum), her employers wrote that she ran away to HOME, the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics.

The employers added that she had been “very turned off most of the time when with us and cannot remember things or take instructions. She is 24 year old Filipino, yet cannot understand English well”.

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Father stabs daughter to death over her S$200,000 debt from addiction to online shopping

 

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A woman racked up debts of over S$200,000 from online shopping, forcing her father to use up his savings and take loans to repay the amount owed. He eventually stabbed her to death during an argument over the money.

Liu Juan (not her real name), 30, developed an addiction to online shopping in 2019. It was reported that packages were delivered to their home daily, with a new one arriving even before the previous delivery could be opened.

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‘A man with no moral and values’ — Netizens condemn man who raped maid multiple times while his family was out

 

A man was sentenced on Wednesday (Nov 15) to 24 years in jail for repeatedly raping their domestic helper from Indonesia while his wife and children were out of the house. The sexual assault occurred between September and October 2020. Aside from the 24-year jail sentence, the man, who was 34 when he raped the helper, was also given 24 strokes of the cane.

The assault on the helper ended when she, then 24, called her agent, who told her that if she filed a report she would not be banned from working in Singapore, The Straits Times reported. However, the assault also left lasting emotional scars on the woman. She lost two other jobs and was blamed by her family and boyfriend for getting raped.

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Shopee’s Forrest Li, once Singapore’s wealthiest man, net worth plummets from S$26.6 billion to S$4 billion

 

Forrest Li. Photo: Screengrab/sea.com

In September of last year, Forrest Li was listed as the richest person in Singapore on the  Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with a net worth of S$26.6 billion.

Following a harrowing year for many in the tech industry, Li’s fortune has plummeted to a little over S$4 billion.

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4 SG men raped & watched each other’s drugged wives being raped as part of wife-sharing fantasy face up to 22 years in jail & 20 strokes of the cane

 

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This was “one of the most astonishing and atrocious cases of sexual assault to ever come before this court,” said Justice Pang Khang Chau on four men who plotted to rape their drugged wives.

The men discussed their wife-sharing fantasies online and conspired to rape each other’s wives, exposing them to unwanted pregnancies and sexual diseases, added Justice Pang. It is the role and duty of a husband to love, cherish and protect his wife. “This is a betrayal of trust of the most egregious kind,” he said.

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