Kita tahu, Singapura strict menjalankan hukum. Jaman konfrontasi, dua anggota KKO tetap dihukum gantung karena melakukan sabotase di negara orang. Wanita Inggris pengedar narkoba tetap dihukum mati, padahal ada permohonan ampun dari Ratu Elizabeth. Tahun 1995, PRT Filipina, Flor Contemplacion, tetap dihukum gantung karena membunuh sesama PRT dan anak majikannya, tidak peduli dengan huru hara anti Singapura di Filipina.
Dibanding itu semua, hukuman seumur hidup bagi Purwanti dan Sundarti sangat lumayan. Kita sudah seharusnya berterima kasih kepada pengadilan Singapura (pemerintahnya dari dulu beralasan tidak bisa mempengaruhi pengadilan). Terima kasih juga kepada KBRI Singapura yang telah jungkir balik membela sesama warga negara. Tapi kita harus ingat timbal baliknya nanti. Salam, RM (Straits Times Asia interactive) SEPT 30, 2004 Maid who strangled woman Jailed for life After killing mum-in-law of employer, she slit her wrist to make it look like suicide By Elena Chong AN INDONESIAN maid was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for killing her employer's mother-in-law, who had been harsh with her. Purwanti Parji, 19, had strangled Madam Har Chit Heang, 57, in her Tai Keng Gardens home on Aug 4 last year, then slit her wrist to make it look like a suicide. She is the second maid in a week to be given a life sentence. In his judgment, Judicial Commissioner V.K. Rajah said that the callous and heinous crime could not be justified or condoned on the pretext of 'maid abuse'. It was clear, he said, that she had not acted because of some grave and sudden or physical provocation. Instead, she had tried systematically to cover up her involvement in the killing, which showed that she had thought through the consequences of her 'diabolical act', he said. Like violent and abusive employers, domestic workers who resort to violence in retaliation should expect harsh sentences. Though initially charged with murder, Purwanti pleaded guilty on Monday to a reduced charge of manslaughter. As she was below 18 at the time of the crime, she would not, in any case, have been given the death penalty if convicted of murder. Last Friday, another maid, Sundarti Supriyanto, 25, who killed her employer and razed her office to cover up the crime in 2002, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice M.P.H. Rubin. The judge said he had convicted her of a lesser charge of culpable homicide because she had been abused. Like Sundarti, Purwanti apologised in court yesterday to the victim's family, saying she was very remorseful for what she had done. But the family refused to accept it. Madam Har's older son, Mr Leong Meng Wei, 33, said that the killing was a 'stupid act'. Madam Har's husband, Mr Michael Leong Kit Heng, 58, a businessman, said that while Purwanti may have escaped the death penalty, the sentence was a firm and fair one. 'She's a dangerous person,' he said. Purwanti is appealing against the sentence. In mitigation, her assigned lawyer, Mr Subhas Anandan, together with Mr Mohamed Nasser Mohamed Ismail, said that Madam Har had constantly nagged and cursed at Purwanti. She made Purwanti wash and rewash soya sauce bottles if they were not cleaned to her satisfaction. Purwanti, who has had to care for her three step-brothers from the age of nine, found herself working for two households, in Tai Keng Gardens and at Madam Har's daughter-in-law's home in Woodlands, when she came to Singapore to work in November 2002. Madam Har also deprived her of food and would scold her for eating more than she should, said the lawyer. She was often given bread to eat by the maid next door. That morning, Madam Har had scolded Purwanti for not cleaning the toilet properly and tried to slap her. That was the final straw, said Mr Anandan. Purwanti snapped and decided to kill her tormentor. 'If maids are not treated well, unexpected and unpleasant consequences may arise,' said Mr Anandan who urged the court not to impose life imprison- ment on Purwanti, a first offender. However, the judge said that she was 'no shrinking violet unable to fend for herself' or to communicate her difficulties or distress to the world at large. She had killed Madam Har because of longstanding resentment. It was, he said, a 'disturbing case' with a number of aggravating features. Arguing for a life sentence, Deputy Public Prosecutor Jaswant Singh said the killing was deliberate and calculated, not due to any momentary loss of self-control or sudden rage but motivated by ill-feeling. Purwanti was no simpleton and had tried to cover up her act by setting up the scene to make it appear as if Madam Har had committed suicide. She even cut her fingernails when she saw the marks left on the neck of the deceased, he said. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright @ 2004 Singapore Press Holdings. All rights reserved. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. 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