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Yim Pek Ha, shown in this screen grab of video footage provided by The Star Online TV, arrives at a court in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008.
Friday, Nov. 28, 2008

Open quoteSadistic behavior ... cannot be tolerated in a civil society.Close quote

  • AKHATAR TAHIR,
  • judge in Kuala Lumpur, after sentencing a Malaysian former flight attendant on Nov. 27 to prison for 18 years for repeatedly scalding her Indonesian maid with boiling water
Photo: THE STAR ONLINE TV / AP | Source: BBC