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06-09-2017, 04:24 AM
YANGON: Playing with a tiny kitten is the only thing that stops 13-year-old Myat **e crying as she lies in a Yangon hospital, flesh peeling from where she says her employers burned her with irons and boiling water.
She was rescued last weekend from a house south of Myanmar’s commercial capital where she was sent to work as a live-in housemaid earning less than $10 a week. Her story is one many child domestic helper abuse cases to emerge since the country’s first freely elected government in half a century took power last year.
Lawmakers, led by **bel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, have vowed to strengthen protection for child workers.
But new laws appear distant while the culture of abuse persists in a country where poor children are routinely pressed into jobs.
"It hurts," Myat **e whispered to an AFP journalist from her hospital bed after finally stroking her kitten to sleep, tears stifling her voice.
"They did this because I forgot to tell them the water had boiled. I do **t want to go back," added the girl, whose name has been changed to protect her identity.
The girl was sent by her grandmother to work for a couple who were family friends. But concerned neighbours tipped off authorities after glimpsing her back, shoulders and chest covered in livid red burns. Police have arrested the couple, who are accused of branding her with burning irons, beating her and pouring boiling water over her skin.
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She was rescued last weekend from a house south of Myanmar’s commercial capital where she was sent to work as a live-in housemaid earning less than $10 a week. Her story is one many child domestic helper abuse cases to emerge since the country’s first freely elected government in half a century took power last year.
Lawmakers, led by **bel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, have vowed to strengthen protection for child workers.
But new laws appear distant while the culture of abuse persists in a country where poor children are routinely pressed into jobs.
"It hurts," Myat **e whispered to an AFP journalist from her hospital bed after finally stroking her kitten to sleep, tears stifling her voice.
"They did this because I forgot to tell them the water had boiled. I do **t want to go back," added the girl, whose name has been changed to protect her identity.
The girl was sent by her grandmother to work for a couple who were family friends. But concerned neighbours tipped off authorities after glimpsing her back, shoulders and chest covered in livid red burns. Police have arrested the couple, who are accused of branding her with burning irons, beating her and pouring boiling water over her skin.
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