HK maid torture case: more charges
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A HONG Kong woman who allegedly tortured her Indonesian domestic helper in a case which sparked international concern is facing new charges relating to unpaid wages and owed holidays, a court heard yesterday.
Law Wan-tung, a 44-year-old mother-of-two, was arrested in January for seriously wounding Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, her former domestic helper.
Sulistyaningsih said she suffered months of severe abuse in a high-profile case which has renewed worries over the treatment of domestic helpers in the southern Chinese city and sparked angry protests.
Twenty-five new summonses were read out at a hearing yesterday in which a presiding magistrate agreed with prosecutors that the case should go to a higher court.
The summonses referred to various periods when Law failed to grant Sulistyaningsih a total of 16 days leave, as well as unpaid wages amounting to HK$28,000 (US$3,611), a department of justice spokeswoman said.
The case was adjourned until May 20. Law remained silent throughout except when she told the magistrate she understood the new charges.
She is accused of causing Sulistyaningsih grievous bodily harm, and is also charged with assault causing actual bodily harm, common assault and four counts of criminal intimidation — charges related either to Sulistyaningsih or to her treatment of her two previous Indonesian domestic helpers.
Prosecutors said she turned items such as a mop, a ruler and a clothes hanger into “weapons.”
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