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SINGAPORE – A 34-year-old woman has become the fifth person in her family to be sent to jail for crimes involving a friend with a mild intellectual disability who was treated as a slave and physically abused until she nearly died.
Haslinda Ismail was sentenced Wednesday (February 3) to 8 1/2 years in jail after she pleaded guilty last month to two counts of willfully causing harm and one count of twisting the victim’s toe with a pair of pliers until fractured.
She is out on $ 30,000 bail and will be turned over to state courts on March 1 to begin her sentence.
She had splashed hot water on the victim, now 30, burning his stomach, thigh and groin. He also used a hammer to hit the victim’s mouth, causing him to lose two teeth.
On another occasion, Haslinda urinated on a fun pack and forced the victim to eat the dirty food. The hungry woman obeyed.
Haslinda’s sister, Hasniza Ismail, 40, who committed acts such as chaining the victim to a metal plate attached to a wall and hitting her with a baseball bat, was sentenced Monday to three years in jail. He was also ordered to pay $ 1,000 in compensation to the victim.
His two brothers, Muhammad Iskandar Ismail, 32, and Muhammad Iski Ismail, 30, were sentenced on 7 January to prison terms of two months and four weeks and eight months respectively.
Last year, Haslinda’s Egyptian husband, Hany Aboubakr Abdelkarim Abdelfattah, 33, was sentenced to three weeks in jail after pleading guilty to assaulting the victim.
The mother of the four brothers, Hasmah Sulong, 70, is also accused of participating in the acts of torture and her case is pending.
The victim was a high school friend of Haslinda’s brother, Mr. Muhammad Isafi Ismail, and had worked in a fast food restaurant.
He got to know the rest of his family and grew closer to them over time. After running away from home in early 2016, the woman moved into her apartment at Block 714 Woodlands Drive 70, where she remained without paying rent. He gave Hasmah $ 150 a month to do his laundry.
Things took a turn for the worse sometime between May and June 2016, when Haslinda confronted the victim for performing sexual acts with her husband.
The victim was then abused repeatedly and to varying degrees by various family members for over a year, until she was finally taken to the hospital in January 2018.
She stopped working at the fast food restaurant and was forced to do housework without pay after Haslinda took her mobile phone from her in June 2016.
Thereafter, several members of the family repeatedly abused the victim.
Deputy Prosecutors Ang Feng Qian, Li Yihong, Grace Chua, and Ng Jun Chong stated in court documents: “At some point (in June 2017), at Hasmah’s instigation, Haslinda used a hammer to hit the upper front teeth twice ( of the victim), causing her to lose her two upper teeth … (Later) Haslinda splashed hot water from a white electric kettle on the lower front of (the victim’s) body and on both thighs and caused her to suffer burns ” .
Haslinda and Hany later moved into a unit in Block 785A Woodlands Rise. On August 31, 2017, Haslinda took the victim home to help with the family’s Hari Raya Haji preparations.
Haslinda then made the victim stand in the kitchen. He also made sure that the victim did not use the bathroom or sleep that night.
Unable to control herself any longer, the victim got dirty around 11 a.m. the next day.
Then Haslinda became enraged and beat the victim with a broom until it broke. He also used bridles to hold the victim’s hands and legs.
The victim was forced to stand in the kitchen in his dirty pants until the family arrived for the Hari Raya celebrations around 3pm. They did nothing when they saw her.
Hasmah had brought two fun packages for the victim, the court heard. Haslinda tossed one package, urinated on the other, and told the victim to eat the contaminated food. The woman obeyed because she was very hungry.
Later, Hany slapped the victim at Haslinda’s instigation.
Sometime between September and November 2017, at the family’s home in Block 714, Haslinda became angry at the victim for not doing her housework properly and hurled blows at the woman.
Hasniza tried to stop the attack and a fight broke out between the two sisters. Then Haslinda vowed that she would not go back to the flat and stopped abusing the victim. Despite this, the woman was unable to flee as she was chained up at night.
Due to repeated acts of abuse, her condition became so severe that Hasniza called an ambulance on January 16, 2018. The victim was taken in a “near-death state” to the hospital, where she needed eight hours of resuscitation.
The severely malnourished woman was later found with injuries that included 10 missing teeth, as well as multiple wounds and burns. She was finally discharged from Singapore General Hospital on April 20, 2018.
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