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GIRL KILLED AND BURNT IN A POT: MOTHER SENTENCED TO 14 YEARS' JAIL FOR CHILD
ABUSE, PERVERTING JUSTICE


SHE AND HER HUSBAND HID DAUGHTER'S BODY FOR OVER FIVE YEARS, LIED TO GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS TO AVOID BEING ARRESTED

Read full article
Chia Han Keong
·Editor
Wed, 7 February 2024 at 4:36 am GMT-5·3-min read


PHOTO: Getty Images

SINGAPORE — The mother of a two-year-old girl who was killed and burnt in a pot
by her father was sentenced to 14 years' jail on Wednesday (7 February) for
child abuse and perverting justice.

The 35-year-old woman also ill-treated four of her children aged between two and
10, by leaving them in the flat without adequate food and water and without
adult supervision. She fed chilli padi to her eldest son and the now-deceased
girl as punishment, hitting them with a belt and hanger, and slapping them.

She also lied to a Child Protection Service (CPS) officer that she had six
children when she had seven, deliberately omitting the girl who was killed.



The woman cannot be named due to gag orders protecting her surviving children.
She has been remanded since September 2019 and was initially charged with murder
along with her husband, but the charge was later withdrawn.

Her husband was sentenced to 21-and-a-half years' jail and 18 strokes of the
cane for causing his daughter's death in September last year. The judge
partially lifted the gag order, naming the victim's first name Umaisyah so she
could be remembered by her name.


HID BODY FOR OVER FIVE YEARS

Umaisyah was placed in foster care at three to four months of age before being
returned to her parents almost two years later. She was abused by her parents
until March 2014, when the mother slapped her cheeks as she had been playing
with faeces after soiling her diaper.

Umaisyah's father, who had taken drugs, forcefully slapped her and caused a
traumatic brain injury leading to a concussive brain seizure. He tried to
resuscitate her but she could not be saved.

The parents, worried about being arrested, decided to burn Umaisyah's body in a
metal pot, placed the pot in a cardboard box and covered it in cling wrap before
stashing it under the kitchen stove in their flat. The pot stayed there for more
than five years while the couple lied to government officials to prevent
detection of Umaisyah's death.

Story continues

Umaisyah's remains were discovered when her uncle opened the pot when Umaisyah's
mother was in jail. He showed the contents of the pot to his sister's friends
and they reported it to the police. The child's body was burnt beyond
recognition and reduced to charred remains, small bones and a loose tooth.


LOWER JAIL TERM REJECTED BY DISTRICT JUDGE

Deputy Public Prosecutor Norine Tan and her team asked for 14 to 14-and-a-half
years' jail for the offender. Calling this the most serious case of its kind to
come before the courts, she said the offences were "entirely motivated out of
self-interest" as the parents were afraid of being exposed.

Spot checks by different agencies found that the accused had "irresponsibly and
wilfully" neglected her children. On one occasion, Child Protection Service
officers found the children without water for almost a day, surviving only on
sausages.

Lawyers Pramnath Vijayakumar and Sadhana Rai from Pro Bono SG asked for a lower
jail term, pointing to the woman's history of abuse.

She had told an Institute of Mental Health doctor that her stepfather had tried
to molest her since she was 13, and she ran away from home at the age of 15
because of the molestation. She claimed her stepfather had attempted to rape her
and she told her mother about it, but her mother did not believe her.

District Judge Toh Han Li pointed out that just because an offender is abused,
it does not justify abuse of her children.

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