{
  "id": 5511728,
  "title": "Perhamba wanita Indonesia, warga Malaysia dijel 6 tahun di Australia",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/perhamba-wanita-indonesia-warga-malaysia-dijel-6-tahun-di-australia-5511728",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-04T06:03:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2026/09/04/perhamba-wanita-indonesia-warga-malaysia-dijel-6-tahun-di-australia"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In a Melbourne, Australia courtroom, 47-year-old Chee Kit Chong was sentenced to six years in prison for the horrendous crime of human trafficking a 60-year-old Indonesian woman and subsequently assaulting her. Judge Michael Cahill pronounced Chong guilty of treating the victim as his personal property and animal, branding his actions as cruel and inhumane. According to ABC News, Chong deserved a possible release in 2030 and is expected to return to Malaysia after serving his prison term.\n\nIn February to October 2022, the jury found Chong guilty of trafficking the victim between that time frame. His wife, Angie Liaw, was acquitted of aiding or abetting Chong's trafficking of the woman. The couple allegedly engaged in a parent-child relationship with the Indonesian woman after meeting at a church in Malaysia in 2015. In 2017, the woman moved to Australia to live with the couple, but they returned to Malaysia without informing her, leaving her homeless for four years. In 2021, the couple informed her they were returning to Melbourne and offered her a one-month job. The victim consented to live with the couple starting early 2022 after Liaw gave birth to their second child. She was only supposed to reside with them for a month.\n\nCahill stated that Chong denied providing the victim with proper food and medical care throughout the duration of the crime, even controlling her movements and causing her to sleep less. He was accused of assaulting the victim due to minor mistakes and kicking her face and head against the wall. The court also heard that Chong forced the victim to borrow money from relatives to pay rent and hospital bills for the birth of their second child. The woman escaped from Chong's home in October 2022 and was reported missing for several days before police found her and took her to the hospital, where the scandal was uncovered. She later died of natural causes in 2024.",
  "summary": "Chee Kit Chong layak dipertimbangkan parol pada 2030 dan dijangka dihantar pulang ke Malaysia selepas menamatkan hukuman penjaranya.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Dedah nama syarikat Malaysia bakar hutan, Kedutaan Indonesia diberitahu",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/dedah-nama-syarikat-malaysia-bakar-hutan-kedutaan-indonesia-diberitahu",
        "published": "2026-09-04T04:44:20.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}