Tampines mum who pushed autistic son out of the window jailed 5 years
The boy died from multiple injuries from the fall.
Photo: The Straits Times, Social Media
Friday, Mar 18, 2016
SINGAPORE - A Singaporean woman who was charged with murder after pushing her autistic seven-year-old son out of the kitchen window of their Tampines flat in 2014 has been sentenced to five years' jail.
The Straits Times reported that the 43-year-old woman pleaded guilty to a charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder for killing the younger of her two sons in September 2014.
The High Court heard that the woman, who has a history with the Institute of Mental Health since 2008, suffered a relapse of her depressive disorder then.
Her husband and older son had written letters pleading for leniency. A gag order on the name of the dead boy was made by a judge in September 2014 when the woman was charged.
The incident which took place at their home on the ninth floor of Block 815, Tampines Avenue 4 shocked their neighbours who heard a loud thud when the boy fell.
Chinese evening newspaper Shin Min Daily News reported that the woman had told her son to go to the kitchen window and stand on a stool to look out for his grandmother.
But while he was doing this, the woman grabbed the boy by both legs and threw him out of the kitchen window.
When the police showed up at her flat, the woman is said to have had both her eyes closed while she hugged a pillow, refusing to believe that her son was dead, added the Shin Min report.
Wearing a yellow T-shirt and black shorts, he was found lying face down. Paramedics pronounced the boy dead at the scene.
The Shin Min report also said that the woman suffered from fatigue before the incident, and faced marital problems.
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