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Indian girl tortured by employer in Malaysia
Sonia Sharma, a part-time worker at a mobile phone shop, said she was stripped, kicked, punched and beaten by her employer.
A 19-year-old Indian girl was allegedly tortured for 27 hours by her Malaysian employer who accused her of stealing $10,526 in northern Penang state.
Sonia Sharma, a part-time worker at a mobile phone shop, said she was stripped, kicked, punched and beaten with a piece of wood by the 37-year-old employer.
He also cut her forehead, face and arms, and burnt her with a cigarette butt, the New Straits Times reported. Police later arrested the man.
Sharma had quit her job when her employer accused her of stealing the money. Three days later, on March 10, the man demanded to see her.
"When I went into the shop, he locked the door immediately, before (alleging) that I had stolen RM 40,000 from his shop," she was quoted as saying by the Star.
"I denied stealing the money and told him the accounts were in order while I was working there. He threatened to kill my whole family if I did not return the money," she said.
He then ordered her to strip naked and when she refused, tried to suffocate her. She passed out and when she regained consciousness, she found herself naked, she said.
The man also threatened to harm her sexually if she did not return the money.
Sharma managed to escape the following day when her employer was asleep and lodged a police report.
The Northeast police chief assistant commissioner Hamzah Md Jamil said police arrested the man the same night. They also found the victim's bloodstained clothes.
