The girl, who weighed only 20kg at the end, was repeatedly struck with an exercise bar by her ex-auxiliary police officer stepfather for not doing her homework, eating too slowly.
SINGAPORE: An 11-year-old girl was abused, punished with physical exercise such as push-ups and eventually assaulted by her auxiliary police officer stepfather until she died.
Other than the victim, who was her eldest child, the woman had two sons from another union. Her co-accused helped to care for her children, and she bore a son to him in August 2020. The man's family members later saw the bruises and scolded him for physically abusing the girl. They threatened to report him to the police if he did it again and scolded the girl's mother for not stopping him.
As time went by, the man got angry with the victim for reasons including not doing her homework or answering math questions wrongly. On five other occasions between September and October 2020, the woman made her daughter eat chilli padi when she thought the latter was being rude or was lying. In October 2020, the man believed that the victim had been lying to her mother. He took a weightlifting bar, that he had bought a month earlier for his home workouts, and hit the victim in the stomach with it.
The girl's mother discussed the matter with her husband and agreed to have the victim sit in a darker location so her injuries would not be visible, and to pretend to be disengaged. The man stopped and his wife attended to the victim, seeing that the girl's face was red and her forearms bruised. The victim pleaded to be allowed to eat, and the man scolded her for wasting food. He told her that she had to maintain the push-up position and would hit her hard on her back with the exercise bar every time she fell.
He asked her why she was taking so long. The girl did not reply, angering the man. He hit the girl on her thighs with the exercise bar. He took the exercise bar and swung it at the girl's head. He asked her to eat faster, but the girl continued to eat at a pace he perceived as slow. The girl later woke up and the man gave her water and sweets to eat. However, he realised that the girl was bleeding from her ear.
After observing the girl for a while, he realised that the victim was avoiding using her right hand. He grew angry because he believed that the girl's arm would"stabilise" if she used it. On Nov 10, 2020, the girl told her mother that she was in pain, and that she was feeling dizzy. When she tried to stand up at about 10.20am, she collapsed onto the mattress and did not respond.
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