A woman who claimed to be the incarnation of an Indian goddess faces 50 charges, including forcing 5 devotees to swallow human feces as punishment
- A woman who claimed she embodied an Indian goddess has been accused of abusing her devotees.
- Woo May Hoe, 52, was handed 50 charges by Singaporean prosecutors on Thursday.
Singaporean prosecutors have slapped a 52-year-old woman who claimed to be the incarnation of an Indian goddess with 50 charges, including forcing devotees to consume human feces.
According to Today Online, Woo May Hoe was slapped with 40 additional charges in court on Thursday, including cheating and causing grievous hurt. She was initially hit with 10 charges in October 2020.
Woo, who has been held in remand since October 2020, is accused of preying on 14 people over eight years from 2012 to May 2020. Per Today Online, prosecutors have accused her of various offenses, including forcing five devotees to eat human feces as punishment.
According to court documents seen by Today Online, Woo has also been accused of physically abusing a 43-year-old woman by allegedly stabbing the woman's forearm with a pair of scissors and using pliers to pull out one of the woman's teeth.
Per the outlet, Woo also allegedly defrauded several people of millions of dollars by conning them into giving her money to purchase cows, claiming that the donations would help improve her victims' medical ailments.
One of Woo's victims was a woman who gave her 350,000 Singapore dollars, or about $280,000, in 2012 to supposedly buy the animals, Today Online reported. Prosecutors said the woman also gave Woo around $1.7 million between 2013 and 2015 after Woo convinced her that the money was going into building a temple in India.
Woo's case bears similarities to one involving a self-professed "holy man" in Thailand who was arrested in May. Local media outlets reported that the 75-year-old cult leader had led a group whose members drank his urine and ate his feces. Police also said that they found around 11 corpses at his jungle campsite.