The attacker of a 38-year-old Filipina maid in Singapore who almost lost her life was sentenced yesterday to four years and nine strokes of the cane, six months after the incident.
Remedios Allen Adolfo met her her assailant, Indian national Palaiyan Murugudass, when she arrived in Singapore in 2013.
“I was out one day when she walked up to me and talked to me. We exchanged numbers and went out after that,” Remedios told Singapore newspaper The New Paper.
Murugudass, a construction worker, was separated from his wife and had two children. He was a jealous and possessive lover who would get physically and verbally abusive whenever he and Remedio had a fight.
In mid-2015, Remedios broke up with him, but he would still call her 20 to 30 times a day, according to the report.
He showed up at her residence in Aug 2015 and, after an argument, “whipped out a pen knife and slashed her neck, cheek, and left hand.”
Her employer, Jose Mari Camacho, said the the cut was so deep, “I could see her trachea (windpipe) coming out from her throat, where blood was spurting out.”
Remedios has undergone surgery and is still undergoing rehabilitation.
According to the report, she still can’t bend her left thumb and ring finger. She is still under the employ of Camacho, who took care of her after the accident and paid for the flight of Remedios’ two daughters so they could visit their mom in Singapore.
