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S'pore PR, 36, abuses sons & throws boyfriend's phone down 5 floors, gets over 15 months' jail
A 36-year-old Vietnamese woman, who abused her sons and threw her boyfriend's phone as well as a standing fan down five floors of a housing block, was sentenced to 15 months and 12 weeks' jail on Apr. 22, 2026.
The woman, a Singapore permanent resident, pleaded guilty to one count each of ill-treating her son and committing a rash act, CNA reported.
Several other charges were taken into consideration.
According to CNA, she had previously been sentenced to six weeks' jail in August 2025 for the same offence.
Hit son's head with showerhead
Court documents seen by Mothership stated that the woman had two sons with her ex-boyfriend, a 53-year-old Singaporean man.The woman, who had custody of her two sons, then aged eight and nine, cannot be named to protect their identities.
In early September 2024, her elder son, who went to buy noodles from a market in the morning, soiled his pants as he felt a sudden urge to defecate.
Upon returning home, his mother told him to go straight to the toilet, where she bathed him.
She then used the showerhead to hit his head before pushing his head onto the wall multiple times as she was angry with him for soiling himself.
This caused the boy to suffer cuts on his head and bleed profusely, after which the woman bandaged her son's head, but he did not seek medical treatment.
Following this, the boy and his brother later told their father that they had been slapped by their mother at her house, according to CNA.
A video later showed the woman hitting her two sons with cardboard, CNAreported, adding that the father informed the authorities about the abuse and the police were brought in.
Threw phone, standing fan
Later on Nov. 24, 2025, the woman's boyfriend, a 55-year-old Singaporean who is not the boys' father, went to her flat to fix some items and stayed overnight.The woman then emerged from the kitchen in an angry state while looking for her medicine on Nov. 25, 2025.
She then got upset and scolded her boyfriend when he offered to help.
They had an argument where the woman threw a standing fan and water kettle onto the floor, after which the boyfriend left to return to his own flat a few floors down in the same block.
Upon realising he had forgotten his phone, he went back to retrieve it and was told that his girlfriend had thrown it downstairs.
He then went down and found his phone on the ground outside the block with the standing fan.
Unwarranted attack, rash act
An unrelated man then lodged a police report over the items being thrown.The woman initially claimed during investigations that her boyfriend had thrown the items, alleging that he had been drinking and became violent during their argument.
However, she changed her account and admitted to throwing the items when confronted with the photos of the thrown items.
CNA reported that the prosecutor sought 12 weeks' jail for the rash act and 18 months' jail for the child abuse.
The nine-year-old boy was vulnerable and much smaller than his mother, making him completely incapable of defending himself, he said.
The attack was also completely unwarranted and "grossly disproportionate" to any alleged wrongdoing, the deputy public prosecutor said.
He noted that several charges were taken into consideration where the woman abused her two sons for a few months until this was discovered in late November 2024.
According to CNA, the DPP said that as for the rash act, killer litter cases are serious as items thrown from height pose significant safety risks.
Penalties
For ill-treating a child in her care, she could have been jailed for up to eight years, fined up to S$8,000 or both, CNA reported.For a rash act endangering life or personal safety, she could have been jailed for up to six months, fined up to S$2,500, or both.
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