She was the center of the deadliest racial riot in Singapore. On Wednesday, Ms Hertogh died of leukaemia in Huijbergen, the Netherlands. She was 72.
Having been through many national education lessons on the riot, we are no less very familiar with her early life. But what happened to her after she returned to Netherlands with her biological parents?
There was little discussion of her later life, but I found out that Ms Hertogh married a Dutch cabinet maker in 1956. She bore him 13 children of which 3 did not survive infancy. However, a 1975 television production on Maria's story stirred up Maria's unhappy memories and led her to tragic actions. Miserable over working at her husband's cafe-cum-bar from early morning to midnight, she plotted to murder her husband through two friends but the plans were found out and she was brought to court. However, after reviewing her tragic past, Maria was acquitted within one day of hearing. Her marriage ended by the 1980s.
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