A 25-year old maid jailed for life for trying to kill employer's children

A maid who attempted to kill her employer's children in Dubai has been jailed for life. The maid said she was maltreated by her empoyer, and her passport seized to prevent her from leaving.


The 25-year old Ethiopian woman who is known as Y.S waited till her boss travelled, then she poured boiling water on the children, and stabbed them repeatedly while they were sleeping. But they woke up and escaped into the bathroom.

According to reports, prosecutors said that the maid admitted the attack was an act of revenge for being mistreated and deprived of food. She said that she planned the attack because her 42-year old employer always accuse her of theft and seized her passport.

The maid told Dubai criminal court;


“The four of them, the mother and the children, threatened to kill me..When I later asked them to let me go home, they refused and again threatened to kill me.”


While the children 15, 14 and 10 were asleep, she stabbed them repeatedly with a knife At about 7am on April 11, while the mother was out of the country.


The eldest girl narrated what actually happened;

My sister and I were sleeping on one bed while our brother was sleeping on a mattress. Around 7am I felt some boiling water splashing on my face... I woke up shocked and saw the defendant. She held a boiler and a cleaver in her hands. She stabbed me repeatedly in my face, and then she attacked my sister and then my brother. We escaped and locked ourselves inside the washroom, then called the police.After the attack, the maid then went to the mother’s room and took her passport along with some of the woman's money

An Emirati policeman said that they went to Al Warqa 2 after receiving the report of the incident and had to break down the flat’s door when no one answered. He said the children were frightened to open the bathroom door, but did so when they knew it was police.

The children were rushed to Rashid Hospital and police said they found the maid sitting on the floor of the flat’s balcony with blood stains on her clothes and the weapons in her hands, as well as the passport and money.

She is then alleged to have tried to slit her own throat before surrendering to police when they raised their guns.

The convict was charged with a triple murder attempt, double suicide attempt and theft. She will be deported following the completion of her punishment.