SINGAPORE - An unemployed man assaulted his elderly father, causing the older man to suffer a fractured right hip, after he did not give his son permission to learn gymnastics in April 2021.
Kiong Boon Wee, 26, was later given a 12-month conditional stern warning for committing this offence.
Instead of keeping himself out of trouble, he assaulted his mother in September 2022 after she also objected to his plans to learn gymnastics.
He was jailed for seven months and five weeks on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to offences including two counts of assault.
The father-and-son pair were in their flat in Ho Ching Road, Taman Jurong, on April 23, 2021, when they got into a verbal dispute over Kiong’s plans to learn gymnastics.
The tiff soon escalated when Kiong slapped and punched his 73-year-old father’s face.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Jane Lim said: “(Kiong) then used both hands to push (his father) on the chest, causing him to fall onto the ground.
“After pushing him, the accused went back to his room. (The older man) got up and felt a sharp pain on his right hip. He tried to treat it with medicated oil, but the pain became unbearable.”
Kiong’s parents went to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital the next day and his father was found to have a fractured right hip.
The hospital alerted the police about the case of elderly abuse.
The prosecutor said Kiong’s father was hospitalised before he was transferred to Jurong Community Hospital for rehabilitation.
Court documents did not state what happened next, but Kiong was at home with his 60-year-old mother in May 2021 when he punched her face.
He punched her face again three months later, but it was not stated why he assaulted her on these two occasions.
She applied for a personal protection order (PPO) against him and it was issued on Aug 31, 2021.
On Feb 17, 2022, Kiong was given a 12-month conditional warning for assaulting his father.
Despite this, he went on to breach the PPO when he assaulted his mother on two separate occasions in September after they had arguments over his plans to join a gymnastics class.
On Sept 27, Kiong grabbed her shoulders, sinking his nails into them, and he also hit her face.
The next day, he pulled his mother’s hair, grabbed her shoulders and hit her face.
Neighbours called the police after they heard her cries for help.
Kiong, who appeared in court via video link on Wednesday, had tears running down his cheeks when he faced District Judge Kessler Soh.
Pleading for leniency, he said he was remorseful and promised that he would not commit similar offences against his parents.
He told Judge Soh that his parents have forgiven him and that his mother had visited him when he was in remand. “Without my parents, I would not be here... They have nurtured me for 26 years,” he said.
The Straits Times earlier reported that more people have been making police reports on family violence since 2020.
On Monday, the police said a total of 5,190 such reports were filed in 2021, up from 5,134 in 2020.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...or-assaulting-parents-fracturing-father-s-hip
Kiong Boon Wee, 26, was later given a 12-month conditional stern warning for committing this offence.
Instead of keeping himself out of trouble, he assaulted his mother in September 2022 after she also objected to his plans to learn gymnastics.
He was jailed for seven months and five weeks on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to offences including two counts of assault.
The father-and-son pair were in their flat in Ho Ching Road, Taman Jurong, on April 23, 2021, when they got into a verbal dispute over Kiong’s plans to learn gymnastics.
The tiff soon escalated when Kiong slapped and punched his 73-year-old father’s face.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Jane Lim said: “(Kiong) then used both hands to push (his father) on the chest, causing him to fall onto the ground.
“After pushing him, the accused went back to his room. (The older man) got up and felt a sharp pain on his right hip. He tried to treat it with medicated oil, but the pain became unbearable.”
Kiong’s parents went to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital the next day and his father was found to have a fractured right hip.
The hospital alerted the police about the case of elderly abuse.
The prosecutor said Kiong’s father was hospitalised before he was transferred to Jurong Community Hospital for rehabilitation.
Court documents did not state what happened next, but Kiong was at home with his 60-year-old mother in May 2021 when he punched her face.
He punched her face again three months later, but it was not stated why he assaulted her on these two occasions.
She applied for a personal protection order (PPO) against him and it was issued on Aug 31, 2021.
On Feb 17, 2022, Kiong was given a 12-month conditional warning for assaulting his father.
Despite this, he went on to breach the PPO when he assaulted his mother on two separate occasions in September after they had arguments over his plans to join a gymnastics class.
On Sept 27, Kiong grabbed her shoulders, sinking his nails into them, and he also hit her face.
The next day, he pulled his mother’s hair, grabbed her shoulders and hit her face.
Neighbours called the police after they heard her cries for help.
Kiong, who appeared in court via video link on Wednesday, had tears running down his cheeks when he faced District Judge Kessler Soh.
Pleading for leniency, he said he was remorseful and promised that he would not commit similar offences against his parents.
He told Judge Soh that his parents have forgiven him and that his mother had visited him when he was in remand. “Without my parents, I would not be here... They have nurtured me for 26 years,” he said.
The Straits Times earlier reported that more people have been making police reports on family violence since 2020.
On Monday, the police said a total of 5,190 such reports were filed in 2021, up from 5,134 in 2020.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...or-assaulting-parents-fracturing-father-s-hip
