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In the middle of the open-air carpark below her block was a fair-skinned woman with short hair. She was wearing T-shirt and shorts and was pulling a black trolley suitcase in her left hand. In the other hand, she was carrying a small, naked boy.
"It was a really strange sight. I could see the child's butt," Mrs Andrade told The New Paper yesterday.
"At first, I thought she was a maid trying to flee the country. But why was she carrying a kid?" The housewife watched from her window as the maid walked around in circles in the carpark, screaming.
Said Mrs Andrade: "All of a sudden, it seemed like she had a dizzy spell."
The maid fell slowly backwards onto the road, still clutching the baby across her chest. The child started crying and panic ensued.
A car screeched to a halt to avoid hitting the pair.
Just then, Mrs Andrade's own baby started crying and she turned around to tend to him.
When she returned to the window after a few minutes, about 10 people had gathered around the maid.
The child, who Mrs Andrade estimated to be about a year old, was crawling near the maid's feet, with the suitcase beside her.
The maid was still lying on the road, while a woman, who appeared to be in her 40s, picked up the baby and took him towards one of the blocks.
Said Mrs Andrade: "I was worried for the child. Once I saw the lady take him away, I knew he was safe and I stopped watching."
Another resident who was at the scene, Mrs Joyce Tan, 38, said she was chatting with her friend at the void deck when she heard the screams.
Said the housewife: "The maid was on the ground, and a man and his son approached her from the back.
"She quickly got up and ran towards the carpark exit, screaming the whole time."
The father and son, who were the maid's neighbours, gave chase and caught up with her.
They pinned her down on the grass patch and asked a passer-by to call the police.
While they waited for the police to arrive, the maid continued to struggle.
Said Mrs Tan: "She was quite forceful. She wanted to run away, but they wouldn't let her go.
"Two ladies, who were also her neighbours, offered to help them.
"She (the maid) kept retaliating, kicking, punching, biting. She was very violent."
Police officers arrived at the scene about 15 minutes later and used cable ties to secure the maid's hands and feet.
Said Mrs Tan: "Throughout all this, she kept screaming in her own language."
She did not understand what the maid was saying, but heard from her neighbours that she had wanted to go to the airport to return to her country.
The witnesses believe that the maid is Indonesian.
When the ambulance arrived, paramedics used white cloth to wrap the lower half of her body before carrying her into the vehicle.
Said Mrs Tan: "They wrapped her up like a dumpling, I had no idea why."
A police spokesman said they received a call requesting assistance at about 7.30pm at Block 233, Choa Chu Kang Central.
He added that a woman in her 20s was sent conscious to the National University Hospital.
When approached by TNP yesterday, the maid's employers declined to comment.
Added Mrs Andrade: "Normally, this is a very quiet neighbourhood. To witness that was strange and unexpected. And a little scary as well."
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