Singapore  - A Singapore court on Friday sentenced a man to 11 months in jail for molesting his Indonesian maid, a media report said.

Dennis Tan Wei Teck, 36, a father of two, was found guilty of molesting the 25-year-old helper, who was not identified, in the family flat on four occasions from December 2007 to June 2008.

However, Tan was appealing the conviction and was freed on bail of 15,000 Singapore dollars (10,800 US dollars), the online edition of the Straits Times newspaper reported.

Tan first molested the maid when she had been working for him for about four months, according to the judge.

The maid eventually ran away and found shelter in the Indonesian embassy, which reported the crime to the police, the newspaper said. (dpa)