False rape report: Maid jailed

False rape report: Maid jailed:

Apr 5, 2010

By Elena Chong

AN INDONESIAN maid who made a false report that she had been raped by her male employer was jailed for four months on Monday.

Jumiati, 24, admitted to giving false information at Bedok North Neighbourhood Police Centre on May 16 last year.

The court heard that she became intimate with her male employer less than a month after starting work in January last year.

Her male boss treated her well and promised to help her financially after she confided her family problems to him.

In mid-May, she was taken back by her agency after he failed to pay her salary promptly to the agency. Jumiati felt cheated and lodged the false report the following day that she had been raped.

She later admitted that she had given false information. She could have been jailed for up to one year and/or fined up to $5,000.