Tortured maid dies of injuries in Saudi

A housemaid died of her injuries sustained during systematic torture by her Saudi employer for alleged mistreatment of his handicapped children, Okaz Arabic language newspaper reported on Sunday.

The unidentified man confessed to police that he had beaten his maid with a metal object for four successive days because she maltreated his handicapped children at their house in the northwestern town of Tabuk, it said.

Police said the maid ran away to a nearby building under construction after her employer beat her up last week. He then chased her and brought her back into the house, where he locked her up in her room.

“He said he wanted to take her to hospital but she refused…he then hit her again and again and locked her up,” a police source said without identifying the maid.

“He said that she stopped doing any house work last Sunday, prompting him to beat her again…he kept her locked up and later when he opened the room, he found her dead.”