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Maid who stole from employers jailed after adding menstrual blood to their food, water

SINGAPORE — A foreign domestic helper had stolen more than S$17,000 in cash from her employer’s mother. She was also afraid that the family would scold her for her work performance.

The court heard that a foreign domestic worker added menstrual blood and other bodily fluids to her employer's water and rice, believing this would cause them to look favorably on her actions.

The court heard that a foreign domestic worker added menstrual blood and other bodily fluids to her employer's water and rice, believing this would cause them to look favorably on her actions.

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SINGAPORE — A foreign domestic helper had stolen more than S$17,000 in cash from her employer’s mother. She was also afraid that the family would scold her for her work performance.

So the Indonesian mixed some of her urine, saliva and menstrual blood into their rice and water, and the family of six ended up consuming it.

This practice of using vaginal fluids to make love and magical potions can be found in some parts of South-east Asia, where some believe that they have special powers.

On Monday (Jan 13), the domestic worker — who goes by one name, Diana — was sentenced to six months and seven weeks’ jail for her actions.

The 30-year-old pleaded guilty in a district court to two counts of mischief and one count of theft. Another charge of theft was taken into consideration for sentencing.

Diana had worked for her employers for about two years when she put the offending fluids into the family’s kettle and rice.

STOLE MONEY ON FIVE OCCASIONS

The court heard that Diana’s employer’s mother, a 67-year-old housewife, received monthly allowances from her husband and three daughters. She put the cash in a safe inside her bedroom, securing it with a number lock.

Diana then began watching her when she unlocked her iPad, managing to identify the numeric passcode.

Using the same passcode, she successfully unlocked the safe and began stealing the money in it.

On five occasions between mid-August 2017 and June 2018, she took a total of S$13,300 from the safe. Another unidentified female Indonesian helped her to remit the money back to Indonesia.

Court documents showed that Diana stole another S$4,200 between September and November last year.

Separately, she mixed the menstrual blood, urine and saliva into the water and rice sometime in August last year.

In mitigation, Diana — who did not have a lawyer — pleaded through an interpreter for the “lightest sentence possible”, saying that she understood her wrongdoing.

The divorcee added: “I would like to apologise to my employers from the bottom of my heart… I stole my employer’s money because my family in Indonesia has some distress. I am very remorseful.”

For mischief, she could have been jailed up to two years, fined or both. For theft in dwelling, she could have been jailed up to seven years and fined.

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