11-month-old drowned while his mum slept

[MarrickG]

It used to be the guys who are irresponsible and having fun outside while the wife stays at home but it appears to be changing...


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Part 1

Wed, Jun 03, 2009
The Straits Times

By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent

A TODDLER drowned in a pail of water at home while his young mother slept, tired out after a night of clubbing.

Adrian Ong Jun Wei's father was out looking for a job when it happened. The child's maternal grandmother was also out - picking a gift for her grandson's first birthday.

At yesterday's coroner's inquiry into the 11-month-old's death on May 7 last year, his father William Ong Hui Shang, 27, recounted how he had panicked when he got home and saw that his son was not on the mattress in the living room next to his girlfriend. She was still asleep.

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Part II

Becoming a mother at 18 was tough

THE woman whose child drowned in a pail of water while she was asleep said she was 'very sad' about what happened.

But becoming a mother at the age of 18 was very difficult for her, said Ms Tan Siew Kim, now 20 and unemployed. She found it tough to let go of the lifestyle she led before becoming pregnant, and continued going clubbing almost every weekend.

The baby's father pleaded with her not to go and to stay home with their baby. But she could not 'abandon' her friends.

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[@rmadill0]

May the little angle forgive his mother for being so irresponsible when he is in heaven.

Surely a short-gun marriage. The girl is not even matured enough to be a wife, how can she be a mother?