Prison for starving worker

singapore - Because of starving their Filipino domestic worker is a couple in Singapore Monday sentenced to prison. The 40-year-old victim weighed only 29.4 kilograms after they had long been too little food fifteen months.

The worker had to do with some simple slices of white bread and one or two packets of instant noodles a day, said the prosecutors. The aid has now found a new employer.

A court sentenced the female half of the couple to three months in prison. Her husband have three weeks behind bars and was also sentenced to a fine of the equivalent of 6600 euros.

According to their lawyer, the couple had no mischief. In defense of the woman argued that she herself had suffered from an eating disorder. But the court rejected this defense.

In the wealthy city-state is more common for domestic workers suffer some kind of slavery.