The weapon - a roll of shrink wrap weighing 1kg that her abusers knew she feared - was placed next to the woman she called "jie jie" (meaning older sister in Chinese). Her "jie jie", Tan Hui Zhen, and husband Pua Hak Chuan, whom she called "jie fu" (meaning brother-in-law in Chinese), had returned that evening to find Ee, 26, lying in her own urine. While she lay slumped in a chair from exhaustion, the couple decided to punish her for her "bad attitude". Estranged from her family, Ee moved into Tan and Pua's four-room Woodlands flat in late 2013 and was given housework to do. The couple made Ee surrender her salary of $1,200, from which she was given a weekly allowance of $50.

Source: The Star December 03, 2017 01:18 UTC