Woman sentenced to probation for threatening and assaulting another

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Woman sentenced to probation for threatening and assaulting another

Elizerbeth Chua Hui Ping was placed on 18 months' probation for threatening and assaulting a woman.


Published Nov 18, 2015, 2:22 pm SGT
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent

SINGAPORE - An unemployed woman with a borderline IQ and other psychiatric issues was placed on 18 months' probation on Wednesday for threatening and assaulting a woman.

Elizerbeth Chua Hui Ping, 25,was found by a government psychiatrist to be over sensitive to criticism, impulsive and to have had anger management issues since she was young. She was bullied and ridiculed frequently in primary school for her personality and low intelligence.

In September, she pleaded guilty to threatening a 42-year-old woman by saying "I will beat and kill your sons", with intent to cause her alarm, at a void deck in Jurong West on Dec 9 last year.

She also admitted to punching and kicking the woman several times.

Three other hurt charges were taken into consideration in sentencing.

The court heard that Chua was walking her dog when she saw the victim's six- and nine-year-old sons playing with a ball in Jurong West Street 81. One of them kicked the ball which missed her dog narrowly.

She confronted them and started to slap and push them. A domestic helper who had accompanied the boys went home and told the victim that her children were being beaten up at the playground.

The victim rushed down and saw Chua screaming at her sons.

When she questioned Chua, Chua shouted that she would "beat and kill'' her sons.

Chua then grabbed the older boy's T-shirt. When the victim told her to stop, Chua retaliated by punching and kicking her. Chua was restrained by other members of the public.

Mr Foo Juyuan, a Criminal Legal Aid Scheme Fellow, said Chua suffers from a host of psychiatric conditions and said a mandatory treatment order would benefit her. But she was found not suitable for the community-based sentence.

The court then called for a probation report which recommended her probation.

Mr Foo said since December last year, his client had collapsed multiple times a month and had been admitted at least 20 times at various hospitals.

Chua is on long-term psychiatric and psychotherapy treatment. She will take medication and necessary treatment under one of the terms of her probation order.

Addressing Chua in court on Wednesday, District Judge Mathew Joseph said: "You would have realised that that this is not the way to deal with any anger management issues that you have. You don't go round punching and kicking others. These are serious offences. You need to learn to control yourself."

He told her not to do it again, that she needs to behave herself and listen to her parents. She nodded and said: "Yes."

Chua's parents executed a $5,000 bond to ensure her good behaviour.

The maximum penalty for causing hurt is two years' jail and a $5,000 fine, and for criminal intimidation, two years and a fine.

 

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Woman who choked 10-year-old girl at Boon Lay interchange jailed 9 weeks

Elizerbeth Chua Hui Ping was jailed nine weeks and fined $600 on Aug 29, 2016.

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Amir Hussain
Thursday, Sep 1, 2016

SINGAPORE - An unemployed woman with a low IQ, anger management problems and other psychiatric issues was placed on probation in November last year for threatening and assaulting a woman and her two young sons.

But just six months later, Elizerbeth Chua Hui Ping, 26, grabbed a 10-year-old girl by the throat at Boon Lay Interchange.

Out on bail barely two weeks later, she choked a 14-year-old girl at the same interchange.

Both victims were unharmed.

Chua was jailed for nine weeks and fined $600 on Monday (Aug 29). She had pleaded guilty to three charges: committing public nuisance, causing hurt and behaving in a threatening manner towards a person. Two other similar counts were taken into account in sentencing.

A community court heard that Chua regularly accompanied her father when he went to work as an SBS Transit bus driver.

On May 23 this year, she saw a woman board her father's bus at Boon Lay interchange with a drink and got angry. She scolded the passenger, who threw the drink away before returning.

"However, (Chua) grew increasingly agitated and started shouting at commuters ... and challenged them to fight her, causing annoyance to the commuters," said Assistant Public Prosecutor Dillon Kok.

The mother of the 10-year-old girl asked Chua to calm down and lower her voice, as her daughter was getting frightened. Chua responded by choking the child.

The mother pushed Chua away and the girl ran out of the bus.

After the scuffle on the bus, Chua followed the mother as she left the bus and got into another scuffle with her until passers-by separated them.

Chua then spotted the girl and chased her around the interchange but the girl escaped by hiding. Chua was arrested and released on bail on June 7. The next day, she grabbed the 14-year-old girl at the same interchange. She also ran around the interchange threatening to bite others.

Chua had been placed on 18 months probation last year for slapping and pushing a six-year-old boy and his nine-year-old brother in Jurong West in December 2014 - because one of them had kicked a ball which narrowly missed her dog. She later threatened their 42-year-old mother, saying "I will beat and kill your sons", and punched and kicked her.

A government psychiatrist had found Chua to be oversensitive to criticism, impulsive and to have had anger management issues since she was young. She was bullied and ridiculed in primary school for her personality and low intelligence. She is on long-term psychiatric and psychotherapy treatment.