Indian maid ‘burned, beaten, forced to drink urine’
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A TEENAGE Indian maid rescued last week with horrific injuries has claimed that her employer forced her to drink urine, kept her naked in the bathroom and burned her with a frying pan .
The young woman was speaking on Friday, after being rescued by police from a home in an upscale New Delhi neighborhood following complaints by neighbors. Police say she had been tortured by her employer, a 50-year-old Indian woman working for a French multinational.
“(My employer) forced me to drink urine, kept me naked in the bathroom and would singe me with a frying pan and hit me with a broom,” the maid told The Hindustan Times newspaper.
“She would laugh after beating me,” the girl alleged.
The girl also alleged her nails were pulled out and a piece of paper on which she had written down the telephone numbers of her relatives was torn up, The Indian Express reported.
Social rights activists said she was also slashed with knives and mauled by five dogs kept as pets by her employer, who lived with her 85-year-old mother.
The girl’s account has placed the spotlight on abuse of domestic servants.
Employees are sometimes trafficked from poverty-stricken states and toil for long hours for little or no pay.
The teenager, initially reported to be 15 but who is around 18, according to police, spoke to journalists in hospital where she is recovering from multiple injuries, including a deep gash on her head.
She was reunited with her mother on Friday, the English language daily said.
The girl, from the eastern state of Jharkhand, told police that she had been working for her employer for a year.
The employer, who has been arrested and is facing charges of illegal confinement and assault, has denied the allegations and has accused the teenager of being mentally unstable.
Charges would not be pressed against the employer’s elderly mother on account of her age, police said.
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