Housewife arrested for torturing domestic help
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) rescued an eight-year-old female domestic help from a flat in the capital's Uttara who was allegedly tortured by her employer.
Acting on a tip-off from National Human Rights Commission Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman, a team of Rab rescued her around 1:30pm from sector-13. It also arrested housewife Salma Akhter, 40, wife of Mostufa Zaman, a contractor of Rajuk.
Sathi was produced before a press conference at the Rab headquarters in Uttara soon after she was rescued. She showed marks of burn injuries in her body, marks of beatings in legs, hands and shoulders.
She said, “Some days before aunty [the housewife] called me to the kitchen to do some works but I didn't hear her words from the balcony. So she beat me with hot spatula confining in the kitchen."
"Every day she beat me when I said I am tired," she added.
When asked Sathi said her father Kalam Khan of Barisal and mother, a garment worker, left her to the house three months back.
Salma, at the press conference, said she sometimes slapped the kid but did not beat her up severely with spatula or other objects.
"I confess that I have slapped her once or twice. But I have no idea how she has made those bruises in her body. You people are trying to establish that I have done something very wrong," she said.
Prof Mizanur Rahman, present on the occasion, said they received information about the girl some days back from her neighbours.
"Neighbours heard her screaming from the flat. They several times requested Salma Akter not to torture her, but she did not pay any heed," he said.
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