it's not really about money or resources, although they played an important part here its about the fact that the police, the public prosecutor, and the distri

it's not really about money or resources, although they played an important part here its about the fact that the police, the public prosecutor, and the district judge all somehow failed to notice that the claims made by the upper-class family were so outlandish and nonsensical that there must have been hundreds of other cases that weren't so unreasonable and where justice must have been grossly misapplied, and that the typical migrant worker would just take the injustice on the chin and move on for a lack of resources and persistence. the severity of the bias, and the possibility that the system has not worked for a long time, all contributed to this embarrassment. as a side note, two years ago when the initial sentence was handed down the defendant was pilloried online for being one of many hundreds of "thieving maids" that pitiful singaporean families had to endure. facebook groups commiserated with each other with horror stories. the bias extends across the country. a case of the emperor's new clothes, perhaps.