(MENAFN- Arab Times) Police have detained for interrogation an unidentified Lebanese woman for torturing her Indonesian maid for four years, reports Al-Anba daily.
The arrest came when the housemaid, accompanied by a representative from her Embassy, filed a complaint with the Hawalli Police Station.
In her complaint the maid wrote the woman tortured her for four years to such an extent she finally got used to her brutal behavior.
The maid has submitted a medical report which shows she is suffering from a broken and deformed finger due to frequent torture, fractures in the teeth due to beating with a blunt object, bruises in the face, congestion in the eyes and the effects of a sharp object being inserted in her sensitive part in addition to wound scars on the head and different parts of her body.
According to security sources when the maid arrived at the police station she was in a pathetic condition and it even shocked the police officers and the investigator.
During interrogation the maid said she tried in vain several times to escape from the female sponsor. She added her sponsor was very careful when she left the apartment. She kept her locked inside a room that had no windows.
The maid added she finally managed to escape because the woman forgot to lock the door of the apartment.
Deputy Attorney-General has ordered the maid to be referred to a hospital and the sponsor to the Public Prosecution.
During interrogation the female sponsor is said to have admitted to torturing the maid.
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