Huat Zai Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Two children in Singapore suffered at the hands of their biological father for almost two years, being confined in small spaces, eating their faeces out of starvation, and enduring physical abuse. The man's abuse of his children came to a head when he beat his five-year-old daughter to death in the toilet where she and her younger brother had been confined naked for close to 10 months. The man, now 44, cannot be named due to a gag order protecting the identity of his son, who survived the abuse, CNA and The Straits Times reported. The boy was severely malnourished and unable to stand by himself when he was admitted to the hospital. He did not speak and was diagnosed with global developmental delay due to social deprivation. He had to undergo physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy and spent four months in hospital before he was well enough to be placed in foster care. The presiding judge lifted the gag order on the victim's first name, Ayeesha, for society to remember her. He sentenced the man on Apr. 30, 2024 to 34.5 years in jail — an "unprecedented" duration — to reflect the "abhorrence and disgust of the community" at the "inhumane, disgusting abuse" that the man subjected his children to. The judge said the man had essentially used his children as “punching bags for whatever frustration or anger” he felt. Children starved and ate their own faeces The man, who had trained in silat, taekwondo and aikido, started abusing his children in December 2015, when Ayeesha and her brother were only three and two years old respectively. The abuse went on until Ayeesha's death in August 2017. Ayeesha and her brother — the man's children from his first marriage — had previously been in foster care in June 2014 but returned to live with the man and his second wife in early 2015. The man worked as an auxiliary police officer or security officer for different companies from 2003 to 2016. He then worked in a fast food restaurant from 2016 to April 2017 before he became unemployed. The man ran into financial difficulties and as a result, bought less food and diapers, and reduced the children's meals to twice a day. Ayeesha and her brother lost weight and began eating their faeces out of starvation. "Naughty corner" They also played with their faeces, incurring their father's wrath on more than one occasion. In an incident in December 2015, the man repeatedly punched and smacked Ayeesha and her brother after noticing rice, flour, curry powder, utensils and faeces strewn across the kitchen. Ayeesha and her brother were also found eating the contents of a mattress with their diapers torn in an incident in February 2016. The man slapped them forcefully, causing their heads to hit each other. In that same month, the man and his wife confined Ayeesha and her brother in a "naughty corner" as the children often woke up earlier than the couple and made a mess in the house. The couple barricaded them in a space between a bookshelf and a wardrobe in a corner of their bedroom measuring about 90cm by 90cm. Ayeesha and her brother were kept in the "naughty corner" from February to October 2016, even when they had not misbehaved. They were only let out to eat and bathe. During that time, the man did not stop abusing Ayeesha and her brother, as captured by a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera that the couple installed in the "naughty corner". The man was seen in CCTV footage in an incident on Mar. 27, 2016, delivering 86 blows to Ayeesha, repeatedly slapping, punching, caning and kicking her for 16 minutes after she smeared her faeces on the wall. The impact of the man's blows caused Ayeesha to become motionless for more than a minute at one point. The couple moved the "naughty corner" to the toilet in the kitchen in October 2016 and reinstalled the CCTV camera there. Ayeesha and her brother were kept naked in the toilet and were only let out to eat or when the man and his wife used the toilet. The toilet was often stained with their faeces. Man lied to hide children from social services The family's situation had been monitored by Thye Hua Kwan - Tanjong Pagar Family Service Centre (FSC). The FSC worked with the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF). The man brought Ayeesha and her brother to a counselling session at the centre in May 2015. That was the last time that case officers would see her alive. He would lie about Ayeesha and her brother's whereabouts in subsequent visits to the FSC, before disappearing and becoming uncontactable from October 2015 to September 2016. Case officers called him, sent messages and emails, and visited the family's flat, but were unable to reach the man. He went to the FSC on Sep. 1, 2016 and continued lying about Ayeesha and her brother's whereabouts. In October 2016, the man called the case officer and requested for Ayeesha and her brother to be placed in foster care as he feared he might harm them out of frustration. By then, the man's abuse had gone on for close to a year. The case officer notified MSF, told the man to bring his children down to the FSC the next day, and advised him to ask his neighbours or parents to care for the children that night. The next day, the man went to the FSC alone and said he wanted to put Ayeesha and her brother up for adoption, even though the case officer suggested arranging foster care. The man was given the contact details of Apkim Centre of Social Services, which provides adoption services. He visited the organisation with his wife sometime later, without their children, and did not proceed further with the adoption. He then told a visiting FSC case officer on Apr. 27 that preparations were being made for Ayeesha and her brother to be put up for adoption. The case officer made a house visit on Apr. 27 after the couple visited the FSC to request financial support on Feb. 14. The man's wife lied about the adoption once more on Jun. 21, and requested for the FSC to close their case. Ayeesha was hit repeatedly before she was found dead Ayeesha passed away less than two months later at her father's hands. He started assaulting her on Aug. 10, 2017 after his wife complained to him that Ayeesha did not listen to her. She had told Ayeesha and her brother, who were sleeping in the toilet, around 9pm that day to move their legs as they had not been active the entire day while confined inside. The man went to the toilet, pulled Ayeesha up from the ground and smacked her face 15 to 20 times. Ayeesha's head was tilted back in an awkward position when he placed her on the ground. He returned to the toilet to assault the children after his wife complained to him at around 3am on Aug. 11 that Ayeesha and her brother were sleeping in a weird posture. Ayeesha and her brother were left alone in the toilet for the rest of Aug. 11, until the man's wife needed the toilet in the evening and saw a cold and unresponsive Ayeesha facing up with her eyes closed. She called the man who performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) before realising that Ayeesha was dead. Came up with a plan protecting wife, lied to authorities The man then told his wife he would "clean up the evidence". He threw away various items including the CCTV camera, a mobile phone, a pair of scissors, a cane, a rubber hose, bath towels and a child safety gate, disposing of them in different rubbish bins in the wee hours on Aug. 12. These items were never retrieved. He came up with a plan to protect his wife, assaulting her and telling her to lodge a police report against him for doing so and raping her. He also told her to say that she had been at home while he was out with Ayeesha and her brother. The man brought Ayeesha's body and his son to Singapore General Hospital in a pram, lying to SGH staff that the girl became unresponsive that morning. SGH doctors tried to resuscitate Ayeesha before pronouncing her dead at 10:49am. The police were alerted as she was severely malnourished, weighing only 13.2kg, and her body bore multiple scars, marks and other external injuries. Her body also had a foul odour. The man was arrested that afternoon but lied to the police in several statements that Ayeesha had hit her head and tumbled down a slide at a playground on the night of Aug. 11. He only came clean on Aug. 18 after the police showed him footage of himself returning to his block alone in the early hours of Aug. 12. Pleaded guilty to culpable homicide The man was handed a total of 26 charges, including the capital charge of murder. He went on trial for murder before admitting to the offences when the prosecution offered to reduce the charge to culpable homicide. He pleaded guilty to culpable homicide, and five other charges including child abuse and disposing evidence. Another 20 charges relating to child abuse and lying to police officers were considered in sentencing. CNA reported that the man wept as details of the abuse were read out loud, and when videos of him hitting Ayeesha and her brother were played in court. The prosecutor said the videos played in court were just a few minutes of Ayeesha and her brother's life for the past two years. She told the court that the abuse the man inflicted on his children was the "worst of its type" and would "break the will of any human being". She sought a total of 30 to 34 years' imprisonment and at least 12 strokes of the cane. She also said the prosecution would review the case against Ayeesha's stepmother, who was named as a co-accused in the charges of confining the children to the toilet. The defence referred to previous cases where the jail sentences were between 18 to 20 years and asked for a shorter sentence. The defence argued that a sentence of 30 to 34 would be unprecedented, prompting the prosecutor to counter that the facts of the case were unprecedented. The judge sentenced the man to 34.5 years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane, noting that he had subjected his children to physical, mental and emotional abuse. He said the man had taken the concept of a "naughty corner" and "mutated it into a device of torture". He said the primary consideration for sentencing is retribution. "It is punishment to reflect the state's denouncing of such loathsome and sickening acts. Others must also be severely deterred from committing any abuse of this kind." https://mothership.sg/2024/05/man-beat-daughter-to-death/ 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chamfer Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Sick parents..... should just serve death sentence to them instead of wasting taxpayers money keeping them in prison. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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meng.huat Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 Both culprits are monsters... dont deserve the children. jail will be too easy for them. this is not the first case in recent times of these monsters abusing their own children. there was another similar case. and the case of drug addicts burning their own daughter in pot. whats wrong with these creatures? worse than pigs or dogs, at least pigs and dogs take care of their own children. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meng.huat Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 2 hours ago, chamfer said: Sick parents..... should just serve death sentence to them instead of wasting taxpayers money keeping them in prison. death sentence also need to pay hangman. luxury for them. should just confine them to the same toilets, let them eat their own shit, starve and die. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meng.huat Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 (edited) https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/jail-for-stepfather-who-fatally-abused-11-year-old-girl-in-2020-and-mother-who-allowed-her-death https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/mum-abuse-children-hid-toddlers-burnt-remains-pot-jail-14years-2358426 common denominator is quite obvious Edited May 2 by meng.huat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sTiCkY Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 holy fuck... they ate shit?!?!?! should lock him up in jail with the wife and no food... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManOfTheHour Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 15 minutes ago, meng.huat said: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/jail-for-stepfather-who-fatally-abused-11-year-old-girl-in-2020-and-mother-who-allowed-her-death https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/mum-abuse-children-hid-toddlers-burnt-remains-pot-jail-14years-2358426 common denominator is quite obvious 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffeenut Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 Should have sent the kid who's alive to foster care, with a new name and hopefully better life. Then release the name of the surviving parents :s Simi gag order to protect name of the kid? Hopefully the kid not sent to "relatives" who weren't much help when both kids were alive 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noobmaster Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 (edited) 3 hours ago, ManOfTheHour said: @meng.huat @noobmaster 1 hour ago, meng.huat said: Both culprits are monsters... dont deserve the children. jail will be too easy for them. this is not the first case in recent times of these monsters abusing their own children. there was another similar case. and the case of drug addicts burning their own daughter in pot. whats wrong with these creatures? worse than pigs or dogs, at least pigs and dogs take care of their own children. Don’t understand these people Can’t afford kids or not in the right mind to do so, refuse to wear condoms because children are a gift but yet treat the children like that Edited May 2 by noobmaster 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meng.huat Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 3 hours ago, noobmaster said: refuse to wear condoms because their warrior boss told them contraceptives are illegal. but they cannot control themselves... fug like rabbits... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_King Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 Ayeesha was only five when she died in the toilet in her home from a head injury after her father, who had martial arts training, relentlessly smacked her. When her broken body finally gave up in 2017 after two years of abuse, it was riddled with multiple scars, marks and other external injuries. She was also severely malnourished. Her father had started ill-treating Ayeesha and her brother, who is a year younger, in 2015. He underfed the toddlers, causing the girl, who was only three then, and her brother to be so hungry that they ate their own faeces and the stuffing of a mattress. He also assaulted them and confined them naked in the toilet for 10 months. The siblings were below the third percentile of their age group, which meant that 97 per cent of the other children in their age group were bigger and heavier than them. Besides being severely undernourished, Ayeesha’s brother was diagnosed with global developmental delay due to social deprivation. He had to undergo physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy. When he was admitted to hospital after being rescued, he was not able to stand by himself despite being almost four years old. He spent more than three months in hospital, before he was well enough to be placed in foster care. On April 30, the 44-year-old man was sentenced by the High Court to an unprecedented jail term of 34½ years and 12 strokes of the cane. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of culpable homicide for the girl’s death, four charges of child abuse, and one charge of disposing of evidence. Another 20 charges, for child abuse and for lying to the police, were taken into consideration. He was originally charged with murder for the death, and went on trial in July 2023. Part-way through the trial, he accepted the prosecution’s offer to amend the charge. The two victims were his children from his previous marriage. He married his second wife, 33, who has a 12-year-old daughter from her previous marriage, in 2015. They have three children together. The man cannot be named owing to a gag order to protect the identity of his son, who survived the abuse. Justice Aedit Abdullah, however, lifted the gag order in relation to the first name of the daughter “so that society may remember her”. The High Court judge agreed with prosecutors that the man deserved an unprecedented sentence. Justice Abdullah said: “The sentence is heavy. It is unprecedented perhaps, but your acts were unprecedented and hopefully will remain unsurpassed in cruelty.” The two children suffered “sadistic and cruel” physical abuse, and were also mentally and emotionally traumatised, said the judge. “Your children depended on you for love, care and nurturing. Instead, you subjected them to inhumane, disgusting abuse,” he said, adding that the man had essentially used the children as “punching bags for whatever frustration or anger” he felt. The judge said the punishment reflected a denouncement of such “loathsome and sickening acts” and served to deter others from committing any abuse of this kind. Three video clips were played in court on April 30 as prosecutors narrated the sequence of events, providing a glimpse into the man’s horrendous treatment of the two children. One video, from the family’s own closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera, shows the man inflicting at least 86 forceful blows on Ayeesha during a 16-minute assault that took place on March 27, 2016. The man assaults her in anger as he is changing her diaper after she smears her faeces on the wall. In the video, Ayeesha and her brother can be seen wearing only diapers. They are barricaded in the “naughty corner” of a one-room flat. In the video, he repeatedly slaps her, pounds her face with his fists, kicks her and canes her, as she cowers in fear. He also points a pair of scissors at her, grabs her by the hair and lifts her up against a wall by the neck while punching her. After the attack, he wipes the blood from her face and cleans a blood stain off the wall. In another video, captured on Aug 27, 2016, the man repeatedly canes the two children, who were in a double-seater pram in the living room. Justice Abdullah asked prosecutors about the man’s wife, and Deputy Public Prosecutor Norine Tan replied that the prosecution will be reviewing the case against her. The man’s two children were initially placed in foster care in June 2014, after their parents divorced. In early 2015, the children were returned to the care and custody of the man, who was their main caregiver. After the two children were returned to their father, staff from a family service centre, which worked with the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF), continued checking on their welfare. In May 2015, he took the two children along with him to attend a counselling session at the centre. Since then, the children were not seen by any case officer and had not attended any school. On subsequent visits, he lied to the case officers that the children were staying with his mother or other relatives. The man and his wife initially provided the two children with three meals a day, but he cut this down to two meals a day when he started facing financial difficulties. The two children began playing with, and eating, their own faeces because they were hungry. Towards the end of 2015, the man and his wife began hitting Ayeesha, who was then three years old, and her brother, who was only two. From February to October 2016, the couple confined the children in a “naughty corner”, with a bookshelf and a wardrobe to block their escape. The man also installed a camera to monitor the children. The children were let out only during meal and bathing times. Meanwhile, the abuse continued. In October 2016, the man called the case officer and asked for the children to be placed in foster care as he feared that he might harm them out of frustration. He said he wanted to give the children up for adoption, and was given contact details of the adoption service, but ultimately did not follow through with it. He and his wife were told that the adoption process could not proceed unless the biological mother also gave consent or unless MSF could facilitate the dispensation of her consent. That month, the couple moved the naughty corner to the toilet, and the man installed a camera in the kitchen to monitor the children. On the night of Aug 10, 2017, his wife complained to him that Ayeesha refused her instructions to move her legs. The man then pulled Ayeesha up by her arm, smacked her 15 to 20 times on her face, and went to bed. At about 3am on Aug 11, 2017, the wife complained to the man that the children were sleeping in a weird posture. The man then punched the children on their backs, kicked and stamped on Ayeesha, and slapped her face. That evening, the man’s wife realised that Ayeesha was unresponsive. Upon realising that Ayeesha was dead, the man told his wife to file a police report against him for beating her up and raping her, supposedly as part of a cover-up plan. In the early hours of Aug 12, 2017, he threw away evidence, including the CCTV camera, into different rubbish bins at nearby blocks. He then placed his son and Ayeesha’s body into a pram, and went to Singapore General Hospital (SGH). He lied to SGH staff that the girl became unresponsive only that morning. After Ayeesha was pronounced dead by the doctors, the police were alerted about the case. The man continued to lie to police officers and fabricated a story about Ayeesha hitting her head on a slide at a playground. It was only when he was confronted with footage from police surveillance cameras that contradicted his story, that he admitted to these lies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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meng.huat Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 (edited) On 5/2/2024 at 8:54 AM, meng.huat said: this is not the first case in recent times of these monsters abusing their own children. there was another similar case. and the case of drug addicts burning their own daughter in pot. whats wrong with these creatures? worse than pigs or dogs, at least pigs and dogs take care of their own children. On 5/2/2024 at 9:01 AM, meng.huat said: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/jail-for-stepfather-who-fatally-abused-11-year-old-girl-in-2020-and-mother-who-allowed-her-death https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/mum-abuse-children-hid-toddlers-burnt-remains-pot-jail-14years-2358426 common denominator is quite obvious https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/father-raped-daughter-sexual-assault-jail-caning-4311451 1 more case of monster father harming own flesh... The names of all parties cannot be published under a court order to protect the identity of the victim. The court heard that the family of nine - comprising the couple, the victim and her six siblings - live in a one-room flat. @noobmaster @ManOfTheHour @chamfer@XianGe @coffeenut @classyNfabulous Edited May 6 by meng.huat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noobmaster Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 27 minutes ago, meng.huat said: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/father-raped-daughter-sexual-assault-jail-caning-4311451 1 more case of monster father harming own flesh... The names of all parties cannot be published under a court order to protect the identity of the victim. The court heard that the family of nine - comprising the couple, the victim and her six siblings - live in a one-room flat. @noobmaster @ManOfTheHour @chamfer@XianGe @coffeenut @classyNfabulous want to protect identity but give so much details 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classyNfabulous Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 since abuse occurred across a span of 10mths, sure ever coincide wif fasting month. wonder wat’s in their coconut head to claim holy when they are doing such inhumane acts right b4 god’s eyes 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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