For months, an 11-year-old girl was ill-treated by her mother and stepfather, who made her eat chilli padi, splashed hot water on her, and hit her with a belt to punish her. In October 2020, the man, an auxiliary police officer, started beating her with an exercise bar he...
This makes her the first person to be convicted of allowing the death of a child in the same household, which was introduced in 2020 to target those who fail to protect victims from abuse.They cannot be named owing to a gag order. They have a two-year-old son together and two other sons, aged 7 and 8, from her previous relationship.
The assault, which caused the girl to suffer multiple bruises on her arms, buttocks, thighs, and legs, lasted for about 20 to 30 minutes. On Sept 29, 2020, two representatives from the girl’s school visited the flat, but the couple did not allow them to enter the flat. The girl was bleeding from her right ear and her head was swollen, which made the man panic as he knew that she required medical attention.
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