SINGAPORE - A 43-year-old man allegedly began abusing his daughter when she was three years old, assaulting her and confining her naked in the toilet for hours.
The abuse went on until she died at the age of five in 2017, said prosecutors.
The man is also accused of similarly abusing his son, while he was aged between two and four years during the same period, between December 2015 and August 2017.
He faces a total of 26 charges. They include a capital charge for the murder of his daughter, for which he has been scheduled to stand trial in July.
The murder charge alleges that he caused the girl’s death between 9pm on Aug 10, 2017 and the early hours of Aug 11, 2017. The charge did not detail how the death occurred.
The man cannot be named owing to a gag order to protect the identity of his surviving son.
The case was mentioned in the High Court on Monday as prosecutors called for seven of the other charges to be included in his upcoming murder trial.