KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesian maid Nirmala Bonat did not have a swollen forehead when she ran away from her employer’s condominium, the Sessions Court was told.
Yim Pek Ha, 40, said Nirmala’s face was “never like that” when she ran away from her condominium in May 2004.
“I am not aware of her injuries. That is why when a security guard brought her back to us, I did not have any fear,” she told Judge Akhtar Tahir yesterday.
Questioned further by her lead counsel Jagjit Singh, Yim said she did not consider Nirmala a good maid because she did not carry out her daily chores well.
“Nirmala was lazy although her job was basically only cleaning,” she testified on the sixth day of her defence yesterday.
Yim is charged with three counts of causing grievous hurt to the maid at the Villa Putra condominium here. She is accused of using a hot electric iron to do so, as well as splashing hot water on Nirmala between January and April 2004.
Yim faces another charge of voluntarily causing hurt to Nirmala, 24, with a steel mug at the same place on May 17, 2004.
She also denied assaulting the maid with a hot electric iron and splashing hot water on her to teach her a lesson.
“I am not a revengeful person. By nature, I am a very patient and try to be a role model for my children,” she said.
Yim said she did not take Nirmala to a doctor when the maid banged her head on a wall because the blood had stopped and she said it was okay.
“We never called her agency because she asked us to give her a chance. We did not lodge a police report because a crime was not committed,” she said.
The hearing continues on April 14.
