Tamil Nadu woman scales wall to escape from Malay abuser
Other domestic workers had helped her to plan the escape and also to recharge her mobile phone, the woman, now at her home in Chennai, noted.
Chennai: A Chennai woman, lured to work as a domestic help in Malaysia for a salary of Rs 20,000 per month in August, had to dodge three ferocious dogs and scale a compound wall of her employer-doctor’s house to return home on Friday.
“A woman lawyer with a car was waiting for me when I jumped over the wall and she took me to the Indian mission next day,” said the 35-year-old woman, who was physically and sexually abused by a 75-year-old house owner, a doctor, back in Malaysia.
It was Sister Valarmathi, TN coordinator, National Domestic Workers Movement(NDWM), from Chennai who talked to some outfits there in Kuala Lumpur and arranged a lawyer to pick the Chennai woman as she escaped on the night of November 2.
“I was at the house of Dr Thamburaja, Kuala Selangor, a place 60 km away from KL. I fed the dogs with biscuits before jumping over the wall,” the woman said. When the woman reached KL, a Malaysian Indian agent, kept her in a home, for domestic work.
“She harassed and physically assaulted me and never paid me,” the woman recalled. Then the agent shifted her to her cousin’s house. That family too never paid her anything.
Later she was moved to Dr Thamuraja’s house. Unable to manage the man’s sexual assault attempts, she decided to escape from there. She contacted her son, studying in plus-2, who in turn contacted NDWM.
Other domestic workers had helped her to plan the escape and also to recharge her mobile phone, the woman, now at her home in Chennai, noted. She had also lodged a complaint against Dr Thamuraja in Malaysia. The Indian mission arranged documents as her visa had expired in October and funded her return journey.