Housemaid pushes 4-year-old child on boiling milk pot

An Ethiopian housemaid in Saudi Arabia pushed the four-year-old son of her employer on a boiling milk pot, causing severe burns to his body.

It was the latest in a series of attacks by Ethiopian domestic workers on children at their employer’s houses in Saudi Arabia, which last week said it was halting the hiring of housemaids from that east African country.

“A Saudi father reported his Ethiopian housemaid to the police after she pushed his four-year-old son on a boiling milk pot, inflicting severe burns on him,” the Arabic language daily Alsaudeh said in a report from the northern town of Skaka.

It said police arrested the unnamed maid while the boy was admitted to hospital for treatment. It did not mention the reason for the maid’s act.
 

Two Saudis abduct and rape 11-year-old boy

Saudi police arrested two local men just after they abducted an 11-year-old boy and raped him at a rented apartment while they were drunk during Ramadan.

The boy was walking back home just before sunset when the two assaulted him and forced him into their car, newspapers reported.

“They took him to a rented apartment and took turns in raping him under the influence of alcohol during the holy month of Ramadan,” Sabq daily said.

“His father informed the police who surrounded the area…a while later, one of the kidnappers drove into the area and dumped the boy…he was caught off guard when the police surrounded him and arrested him…he also led them to the other rapist.”

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