Singapore - A Singapore court on Thursday sentenced a woman to two weeks in jail for abusing her Indonesian maid, a media report said.

Koh Siew Kiang, 42, had accused her maid, identified only by the name Kusmiati, of stealing fruit and lying to her.

She made her 23-year-old victim kneel in front of her in July last year, rapped her on the head with her knuckles and pulled her hair so hard that some came out, the online edition of the Straits Times newspaper reported.

The maid insisted that family members had allowed her to eat some fruit.

The Indonesian, who had been working for Koh for about a year, eventually ran away from her employer. (dpa)