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HER three-year-old son woke up on Tuesday morning and refused to go to the childcare centre which he had been attending since early this year.
He told her he was being bullied by the “big kids”.
It was only then, his mother said, that she found that he had a bruised wrist.
The 42-year-old housewife took him to a doctor and a hospital document showed he had a contusion on his right wrist.
It also said that his limb had been put in a plaster cast.
The New Paper understands that this was done because the mother insisted that the injury was very painful.
The woman, a China national who wanted to be known only as MadamTay, claimed the boy was the victim of “a bully” at Presbyterian Community Services childcare centre in Tampines, Lianhe Wanbao reported.
He has not gone there since and she wants to send him elsewhere.
When contacted by The New Paper, Madam Tay said in Mandarin: "We want him to transfer to another school,and we’ve thrown away his school uniform and anything to do with the school so he can forget this whole incident and we can put it all behind us.
“We’re just really unlucky that this happened.”
The childcare centre had offered to reimburse the boy’s medical costs, reported Lianhe Wanbao.
However, it is understood that Madam Tay did not take up the offer.
No evidence
She claimed that the bully was a six-year-old girl in K2 at the same childcare centre.
However, the childcare centre refuted her claims. It is understood the staff found no evidence that Madam Tay’s son had been bullied.
Neither did he report the bullying to teachers, said a teacher who declined to be named. And K2 girls have not been to school since Nov 30.
When told of this, Madam Tay insisted that her son’s injuries could only have been inflicted at the childcare centre. No one in her family would have done it, she added.
Her son is the family’s only “male heir and is very well-treated”, she said.
“I do not work so that I can take care of him and his sister.”
She declined to reveal more details about her family, who are “Singapore citizens,and have lived here for 10 years”.
She said her daughter, aged seven, doted on the boy and would never hurt him.
“I feed him bird’s nest before he goes to school twice or three times a week, each costing about $20 to $30,” she added.
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