A woman and her daughter in Ajman were accused of murdering their Asian housemaid by torturing her for several weeks, using hot iron, sharp objects, water pipes and power cables, newspapers reported on Wednesday.
The unnamed woman confessed in court that she had severely tortured her maid over a period of weeks to punish her over work, the papers said.
Another woman who lives next door told court she had heard screams for nearly 45 days at that house and that the screams stopped after the maid died.
The woman said one day she went up to the roof of her house after hearing screams and saw the woman was beating the maid with a broom stick.
“The woman and her daughter confessed to systematic beating and torture of the maid…the mother admitted that she used a water pipe, sharp objects, hot iron, power cables and a steel bar to beat up the maid,” the Dubai-based Arabic language daily Emirat Alyoum said.
“She also said that she used a hot iron to burn the maid’s back side of her hand and her arm and that she refused to take her to hospital.”
The paper said Ajman’s criminal court which is trying the mother and her daughter for murder adjourned hearings for more tesimonies.