Soo Ah Lai

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Charge:	Human trafficking
Sentence:	4 years
Years Imprisoned:	1.17
Year Crime:	2012
Year Convicted:	2013
Year Cleared:	2014
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Malaysia
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City of Crime:	Kuala Lumpur
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Soo Ah Lai, 60, and her two daughters Yap Siew Ling, 38, and Yap Siew Lee, 31, were wrongly convicted in the Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on February 22, 2013, of trafficking and exploiting their Cambodian maid. The three were each sentenced to 4 years imprisonment. On April 11, 2014 the High Court in Kuala Lumpur overturned the three women's convictions and acquitted them, ruling there was no evidence the maid couldn't leave the women's house and that she wasn't paid for her work, so there was insufficient evidence they violated the Anti-Trafficking in Person Act 2007. The women were subsequently released from prison."
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Innocence Proved By:	In April 2014 the High Court in Kuala Lumpur overturned the three women's convictions.
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Age When Imprisoned:	60
Age When Released:	61
Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	Asian
Information Source 1:	"Housewife, daughters acquitted of trafficking and exploiting Cambodian maid, The Star (Malaysia), April 11. 2014"
Information Location 1:	http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/04/11/court-housewife-daughters-cambodian/
Information Source 2:	"Housewife, daughters freed of trafficking in, exploiting maid, The Malay Mail, April 11, 2014"
Information Location 2:	http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/housewife-daughters-freed-of-trafficking-in-exploiting-maid
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Soo Ah Lai

Charge:

Human trafficking

Sentence:

4 years

Years Imprisoned:

1.17

Year Crime:

2012

Year Convicted:

2013

Year Cleared:

2014

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Malaysia

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Kuala Lumpur

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

In April 2014 the High Court in Kuala Lumpur overturned the three women's convictions.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

60

Age When Released:

61

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

Asian

Information Source 1:

"Housewife, daughters acquitted of trafficking and exploiting Cambodian maid, The Star (Malaysia), April 11. 2014"

Information Location 1:

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/04/11/court-housewife-daughters-cambodian/

Information Source 2:

"Housewife, daughters freed of trafficking in, exploiting maid, The Malay Mail, April 11, 2014"

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http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/housewife-daughters-freed-of-trafficking-in-exploiting-maid

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