Melbourne man found guilty of keeping woman as a slave

A County Court jury has returned guilty verdicts for Chee Kit Chong on charges of intentionally possessing a slave and assault, but cleared him of two other assault charges.
The court previously heard he had beaten an Indonesian woman and deprived her of food while she worked at his home.
Chong’s wife, Angie Liaw, was also charged with aiding an offence, but was acquitted by Judge Michael Cahill before the end of the trial.

Disgusting stuff, this woman was old enough to be his mum and they beat and starved her.

“Chee Kit Chong was accused of kicking the woman in the face, hitting her with a vacuum cleaner shaft and smashing her head through a wall during an eight-month period from February to October 2022.

“He repeatedly told her she had to work to repay supposed debts. And when [the victim] failed to meet Mr Chong’s expectations … they would punish her by assaulting her, also by depriving her of sleep and food,” Crown prosecutor Shaun Ginsbourg SC told the trial.

Police were alerted to the woman’s plight when she attended hospital with a swollen ear and leg, a cut on her foot, bruising around her eye and signs of malnutrition.”

I’m glad he got the slavery verdict. Sentencing will hopefully deliver a long term in jail.

Hey look another clear example of Melbourne’s piss weak sentencing.

Husband and wife kept a slave and tortured her but the wife gets off scotch free and the husband has 2/3 charges dropped.