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[Sg] - Meth addict father beat 2 year old toddler daughter to death, then kept her body in cooking pot at home for years
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no smell ?
cooking pot very good..................got say what brand ?
cooking pot very good..................got say what brand ?
The story has muud all over it.
Man who killed 2-year-old daughter, left charred remains in pot gets over 21 years’ jail, caning
After the girl suffered a seizure from being slapped, her parents burnt her body in a metal pot and kept her remains in a box under the kitchen stove for more than five years.
File photo of the Supreme Court in Singapore. (Photo: CNA/Syamil Sapari)
- The girl, who was in foster care, was abused by her parents after she was returned to their home
- The man and his wife lied to the Education Ministry about the girl’s whereabouts when contacted about why she had not registered for Primary 1
- “Slapping a two-and-a-half-year-old child to such an extent that she would stop breathing and suffer a concussive seizure is unbelievable,” the judge said. “What you did was vicious, callous and heinous."
Lydia Lam
@LydiaLamCNA19 Sep 2023 11:43AM(Updated: 19 Sep 2023 02:15PM)
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SINGAPORE: A man who killed his toddler and hid the crime with his wife by burning the girl's body in a metal pot was sentenced to 21-and-a-half years in jail and 18 strokes of the cane on Tuesday (Sep 19).
The 35-year-old Singaporean cannot be named due to gag orders to protect the surviving victims. The gag orders imposed by the court also cover the identity of the wife and where the killing occurred.
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However, the judge stressed that the victim's first name, Umaisyah, should be published so that she can be remembered by her name instead of as "the deceased" or "the victim".
The man pleaded guilty to one count of culpable homicide not amounting to murder by causing his daughter's death and failing to get her medical help.
He also pleaded guilty to three charges including rioting, ill-treating his stepson and consuming a specified drug. Another five charges will be considered in sentencing.
The court heard that the man and his then-wife had four children of their own, including the two-and-a-half-year-old victim who was born in 2011.
The woman had a daughter and a son from a previous marriage.
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When Umaisyah was three to four months old in November 2011, she was placed in foster care as her father had been detained in a drug rehabilitation centre and her mother was assessed to be unable to take care of her.
In June 2013, the girl was returned to her parents.
She often cried as she had spent one-and-a-half years in foster care and her parents were not familiar to her, the prosecution said.
GIRL WAS ABUSED
The court heard that Umaisyah was abused by her parents until her eventual death. Her father would hit her with items such as a belt or a hanger and would punch her thigh and pinch her body.The couple also abused their other children in a similar fashion.
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In March 2014, the accused and his wife were upset at the girl as she was playing with her faeces after soiling her diaper.
When the girl cried "despite being asked not to", her mother slapped her cheeks and "flicked her lips", the prosecution said.
The accused, who had consumed meth earlier that morning, forcefully slapped his daughter two to three times.
As a result, the girl's legs went weak. She sat on the floor and her body started leaning to the right while her upper body bent forward. She stopped crying and started gasping for air.
Her mother saw blood and liquid coming out of her mouth and nose.
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Umaisyah had suffered a significant traumatic brain injury which led to a concussive brain seizure.
Her father performed a few rounds of cardiopulmonary resuscitation but she did not respond. Despite the life-threatening nature of her injuries, neither parent called for help or took her to hospital.
They were concerned that they would be arrested for her injuries. The accused was also worried about being arrested for his drug use.
It is possible that medical intervention could have saved the girl, the prosecution said.
COVERING THEIR TRACKS
The couple, who have since divorced, tried to cover their tracks, destroying evidence and lying to the authorities and their own family members about the victim's whereabouts.On the day Umaisyah died, her parents placed her body in a metal pot and set her body on fire in the back of the accused's lorry.
They made sure her body was fully burnt before placing the pot in a cardboard box, sealing it with masking tape and covering it in cling wrap.
They kept the box under the kitchen stove in their flat.
Umaisyah's uncle, named only as Z, was warned against touching the box and told it contained items from the accused's lorry.
When the Ministry of Education contacted them in 2017 to check why the girl had not registered for Primary 1, the mother lied that her estranged husband had taken the child away, while the accused lied that his relatives were caring for the girl in Malaysia.
The mother's brother, Z, became increasingly curious about the contents of the box. He tried to throw it away in 2017 as it was dirty and there were cockroach eggs in the cling wrap.
When Umaisyah's mother found out, she had the box freshly wrapped and warned her brother not to touch it again.
After the mother went to prison in 2019, her brother opened the box and saw a lump that was decomposed and wet.
He later showed the contents of the pot to his sister's friends when they visited the flat after attending her sentencing for other crimes.
The friends felt uneasy and reported it to the police.
The child's body was "charred beyond recognition", the prosecution said. At autopsy, small bones and a loose tooth were uncovered from the soot and debris, the court heard.
All facial features were absent, and the hands and feet could not be identified.
JUDGE QUESTIONS DELAY IN THE CASE
At the start of the case, Justice Aedit Abdullah asked the prosecution "why it has taken five years" if the accused was arrested in 2018.Deputy Public Prosecutor Wong Woon Kwong said there were "significant investigations to be conducted", largely due to the fact that the victim's body "had been destroyed".
"So there were significant investigations in terms of trying to verify the causes of death or what happened effectively to the deceased and sort of reconstructing the events," said Mr Wong.
As for the court process, he said this case had been fixed for a guilty plea twice but did not go through.
The prosecution asked for a jail term of 20-and-a-half to 21-and-a-half years, along with 18 strokes of the cane.
Mr Wong said the man was trying to shift the blame to his wife when both of them had agreed on a plan to destroy their daughter's body.
The man is represented by three sets of lawyers: Mr Si Hoe Tat Chorng from Acacia Legal, Ms Harjeet Kaur Dhaliwal from Withers KhattarWong and Mr Ramesh Tiwary.
Mr Tiwary said he would like to state very clearly that his client was not shifting any blame. Instead, the defence was "merely stating what happened".
"The accused is not trying to shirk responsibility. He has accepted that he was part of what happened," he said.
He added that the killing was "not a premeditative act" but occurred spontaneously. He said "the extent" of his client's acts that day was to slap his daughter two or three times, which caused her to suffer the injury.
JUDGE ADMONISHES OFFENDER
In his sentencing remarks, Judge Abdullah told the offender that the gag order was not to protect him but his remaining children.He said his daughter had died because of his ill-treatment, and "the gag order cannot protect her".
"I therefore lift the gag order and specify that her name can be published. This is important," he said.
The judge said Umaisyah died when she was very young and was "robbed of any opportunity of growing up", developing her own identity and leading a fulfilling life.
"It's important to my mind that we all remember her by her name, and not by cold and impersonal nouns such as deceased or victim," he said.
He added that he feared that Umaisyah would be remembered only as the child who was killed, burnt and kept in a pot.
"Umaisyah deserves so much more," he said.
There was "little to be said" in the man's favour in mitigation, the judge said.
The man said he had found solace in religion, but Judge Abdullah said: "It's between you and your maker. It is irrelevant to sentencing. I'm here to impose punishment on behalf of the state."
He said the man's killing of Umaisyah was among the worst cases of culpable homicide, and that while a guilty plea normally warranted a discount, his acts were "so reprehensible" and the criminal acts "so great" that he agreed with the prosecution that the maximum should be imposed.
"If you had called for medical help, there would have been some chance of Umaisyah living," said the judge. "Slapping a two-and-a-half-year-old child to such an extent that she would stop breathing and suffer a concussive seizure is unbelievable."
"She was but a toddler," said the judge. "She could not resist, and she could not fight back, and she could not run away. What you did was vicious, callous and heinous."
He said it was clear that the offender was "a violent person ready to strike and hit".
"There's little to operate by way of mitigation. You need to be punished for what you've done," he said.
He allowed six family members to speak to the man after sentencing.
The case of the victim's mother is pending before the courts. She was initially charged with murder along with the offender, but the prosecution later withdrew the murder charge against her.
Chin Swee Road child death
Chin Swee Road child death
The flat where the girl was found dead. Toys and flowers were placed outside the flat by sympathizers as condolences to the victim | |
The parents, who themselves were in prison serving sentences or pending trial for unrelated offences, were both charged with murder. The victim and couple cannot be named due to a gag order protecting the identities of their other children. Currently, only the father was awaiting trial for murder while the mother, who received a discharge not amounting to an acquittal, faced pending charges of child abuse and other types of offences.
Discovery of human remains
On 10 September 2019, an intellectually-disabled man living in one of the HBD units at Chin Swee Road was looking for food to eat in his home, which was previously occupied by his brother and the wife of the brother, and their children. Neighbours stated that the young man had been residing in the flat for three to four months, and occasionally, a friend was asked to come to keep check of the man's welfare and bring him food.[1]Incidentally, inside the kitchen, the man, who was in his twenties, discovered a metal cooking pot, which contained the skeletal remains of a human child. The man, due to his low intelligence, did not recognise the corpse and hence cooked it, believing it to be food. The decomposing smell coming from the corpse alerted the neighbours, who immediately called the police,[2][3][4] who arrived at the flat and impounded the metal cooking pot and the human remains as evidence, as they classified the case as one of unnatural death.[5]
Investigations
Through first-stage investigations, the police found that the human remains did not belong to a fetus, but it belonged to a girl aged approximately 30 months old, or equivalent to two years and six months of age. The parents were the brother and sister-in-law of the man who found the corpse inside the kitchen, and it was further established that the child died five years prior in March 2014, and the parents, who had three to five more children, were likely responsible for her death, and had possibly burned the body in order to conceal her death.[6][7][8]According to police investigations, the parents, who themselves were already in prison charged with unrelated offences by September 2019, had lied to the social service agencies that the girl, whose birth was registered, was placed under the care of their relatives, even though there were confirmation that their other children were being taken care of by relatives, friends or social services.[9][10] Their case was well known to the community agencies in the neighbourhood.[11] In fact, on 9 September 2019, the day before the girl's corpse was found, the mother was sentenced to five years and two months' imprisonment for a total of four charges of drug-related offences and theft. The father was remanded since June 2018 for charges of rioting and consumption of methamphetamine.[12]
Criminal charges
On 16 September 2019, a week after the discovery of the girl's skeleton, reports revealed that the girl's biological parents were arrested for their involvement in the case, now known as the "Chin Swee Road murder" case in the media. The parents and the girl were not named due to a court gag order issued to protect the identity of her surviving siblings. Under the law, the death penalty would be imposed in cases of offenders found guilty of murder.[13][14] The authorities gave assurance that the victim's siblings were still safe and under stable care.[15]On 17 September 2019, the couple, who were both Singaporeans, were officially charged with murder at the State Courts for allegedly murdering their two-year-old daughter.[16][17] The 31-year-old father, who was awaiting trial for the other three charges, was given a remand order on 24 September 2019 to undergo psychiatric evaluation for killing his daughter.[18][19][20] The 30-year-old mother, who already begun serving her sentence of five years and two months, was ordered on 1 October 2019 by the district judge to be remanded in Changi Prison's Complex Medical Centre for three weeks for psychiatric observation.[21][22] The Attorney-General's Chambers warned members of the public to not breach the gag order, after some people published purported photographs of the girl's parents and family members, which amounted to potential risk of identifying the victim or anyone related to her.[23][24][25] Anyone who breaches the gag order can be jailed up to a year, fined a maximum of S$5,000, or both.[26]
On 5 February 2021, two years after the couple were charged with murder, the prosecution, having reviewed the evidence and case thoroughly, decided to apply for a discharge not amounting to an acquittal for the mother with respect to killing her daughter, meaning that the murder charge would be temporarily set aside, with the possibility to revive it should new evidence surfaced. The mother's lawyers objected to the prosecution's decision, as they sought a full acquittal of the murder charge, which would mean the mother cannot be prosecuted for the same offence again. On the other hand, the prosecution confirmed that they would proceed with the original murder charge against the father.[27][28][29]
On 2 March 2021, the mother was granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal for murdering her daughter.[30][31][32] She, together with her husband, were also charged with 12 counts of having abused the victim and their other surviving children, perverting the course of justice, as well as giving false information to the social welfare agencies in relation to the girl's whereabouts.[33][34] The mother was offered a S$80,000 bail in November 2021.[35][36]
As of 2023, the couple are pending trial for the girl's abuse, and the father remains facing a murder charge for killing the girl. A gag order remains to protect the identity of the girl.
Case effect
The Chin Swee Road child murder shocked the whole of Singapore when it first came to light in September 2019, due to the unusual circumstances of the case. Several people went to the flat to place toys and gifts outside, to pay respects and show sympathy to the deceased victim. Several members of the public also called for justice to be served.[37] Member of Parliament (MP) Lily Neo expressed her condolences to the girl.[38]There were intentions by the government to strengthen network of agencies and community organisations to provide better care for welfare of children without stable caregivers. For cases of children "without alternative caregivers" or had safety concerns during their operations, these children will be referred to the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF), who would ensure the children be placed under stable care arrangements.[39][40]
Within a year since the discovery of the girl's death, there were two more high-profile murders of young girls whose parent(s) were charged with murdering them. One of them was the case of Megan Khung Yu Wai, a four-year-old girl who was allegedly killed by her mother and the mother's boyfriend in February 2020 before having her corpse burned three months later; the couple were eventually caught and charged in July 2020. Another was an eleven-year-old schoolgirl who was allegedly killed by her stepfather and mother, who were both arrested and charged in November 2020.[41]
The Chin Swee Road murder case was considered one of the most significant familicides (also including the Woodlands double murders) in Singapore in recent years.[42]
Stop reading at " However, the judge stressed that the victim's first name, Umaisyah, should be published so that she can be remembered by her name instead of as "the deceased" or "the victim"..."
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Yet another Muud drug addict.
Wow Lau… the name of the dead gal is already mention in the article… no need to guess
Pls don’t be racist. This criminal origin can be traced to India but he is a Muslim and accepted as Malay Muslim and staying in Yishion
What the British did to Chinese during the century of humiliation selling opium and got Hong Kong and concessions in other cities, pAP currently doing similar to Malays and got a island.
The judge must be a racist, refusing to cover up the first name LOL.
Judge Abdullah don't give face to a muud who claimed he found solace in the mohammedan religion. Good!
Even Moses killed somebody.
Might be a different case.
Chin Swee Case - Burned corpse was cooked by a retard Chink, with the bad smell discovered and reported by his brother. Both took over the flat from the Mat family. Body discovered on 10 September 2019.
This case - Burned corpse discovered and reported by the Minah wife's brother. Body discovered in 2019 (exact date not reported).
Apologies its the same case according to Wikipedia. But I do not know what the discovery of the body has changed.
Known as the Chin Swee Road child death case, the charred skeletal remains of a girl, whose given name was Umaisyah, were first discovered hidden and sealed inside one of the metal cooking pots from a flat in Chin Swee Road on 10 September 2019. The police found that these remains belonged to two-year-old Umaisyah and furthermore, her parents who used to reside in the flat were allegedly responsible for killing the girl five years before in March 2014.
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Known as the Chin Swee Road child death case, the charred skeletal remains of a girl, whose given name was Umaisyah, were first discovered hidden and sealed inside one of the metal cooking pots from a flat in Chin Swee Road on 10 September 2019. The police found that these remains belonged to two-year-old Umaisyah and furthermore, her parents who used to reside in the flat were allegedly responsible for killing the girl five years before in March 2014.
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