Hong Kong - Feb. 13
A court has find a HK housewife guilty of 18 charges, including assault and failure to pay wages, inflicted against Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, a migrant worker who once worked as a maid in the housewife's home. Sulistyaningsih's testimony included grisly details of the mental and physical abuse the housewife inflicted on her, including having a vacuum cleaner rod shoved in her mouth and having fed only a diet of bread and rice. Source: New York Times