ABU DHABI // A maid who murdered her employer's four-month-old daughter by smashing her head on a table had her death sentence upheld in her final appeal on Tuesday.
S T, from Indonesia, took baby Malak from a bedroom that was fitted with CCTV cameras and hit the infant’s head against a wooden table. She then returned the baby to her crib four minutes later.
S T waited for her co-worker, a Filipino nanny, to use the bathroom before attacking the child, the court was told.
She later admitted to killing the baby to get back at the nanny, with whom she had a rivalry. She said she pictured the nanny's face every time she looked at the baby.
Police investigations found that at the time of the attack, the maid was suffering emotional distress after her fiance left her for another woman.
She was sentenced to death by the Criminal Court last September and the Appeals Court upheld the verdict in January.
In the Appeals Court, she denied deliberately harming the child, saying she had dropped the baby by mistake. This verdict by the Cassation Court cannot be appealed further.
But the President has the final say over whether the sentence is carried out.
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