By Elena Chong
A FILIPINO maid who was massaging her employer's three-year-old son pulled his leg so forcefully that his right thigh bone was broken.
Myla Cabradilla Cabuenas, 30, then told her employer that the toddler had fallen at home and injured his knee.
But the employer, who had wired her home with cameras, viewed the video footage and saw what the maid had done to the boy. He has a history of developmental delay and suffers from epilepsy.
She told her husband, a 36-year-old engineer, who then called the police.
Yesterday, the maid was jailed nine months for ill-treating the child under her care at her employer's home on July 1.
Assistant Public Prosecutor Asran Samad said the maid was alone with the boy when she placed him on a mattress and began massaging his legs. She had been hired three months earlier to perform basic physiotherapy techniques, including massaging the boy, and caring for him.
