Baby found buried alive
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THE newborn baby boy was not only found with a trash bag twisted like a rope around his neck, but he had also been - for good measure - buried in a rooftop garden of a Eunos Crescent block.
But the person or persons who did this did not count on the infant's will to live - and to cry.
Retiree Tay Kim Sia, 60, looking for the source of a mewing noise, unearthed the baby from his shallow grave in the garden atop Block 31A, a multi-storey carpark block, on Monday.
The child, his mouth stuffed with mud and dried leaves and his umbilical cord still attached, has since been taken to the KK Women's and Children's Hospital, where he is in a stable condition.
The police are still trying to track down his next of kin.
Mr Tay said he was smoking at the sixth-floor garden at around 2pm when he heard soft mews.
-- ST
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The people who did this should be buried alive as a punishment.
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thanks God the baby lives
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wad a fcking bastard parent
they should be caned and jailed
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twist their fking neck. fking murderers
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I hope the culprits are charged for attempted murder, rather than child abandoment. The trash bag twisted round the neck and burying is definitely an attempt to silence and kill the baby. I can sympathise with the girl, if she just abandon the baby, but to try and kill, or allow the guy to do it, is just too much. Evil.
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when baby grows up and learnt of what happened, he'll be so sad
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hope he doesn't come to sgforums.....
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Eunos baby case classified as 'child destruction'
THE newborn boy found buried alive in a Eunos Crescent rooftop garden on Monday with a plastic bag knotted around his neck is now officially more than just an abandoned child.
Police have classified the case as one of 'child destruction immediately after birth'.
Read the full report in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
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This is new to me "child destruction immediately after birth". The child is an object, ah?
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Mother of baby found buried alive arrested
THE mother of the newborn baby found buried in a rooftop garden in Eunos Crescent has been arrested.
The 27-year-old was nabbed near Eunos MRT station at around 9pm on Sunday. She is believed to be an Indonesian who overstayed here.
Her newborn son was found buried in a flower bed at the sixth-floor garden of a multi-storey carpark on Monday last week. A plastic bag had been tied around his neck.
Retiree Tay Kim Sia, 60, found the baby after he heard what he thought was a cat mewing while he was having a smoke in the garden. He looked among the plants and saw a tiny foot sticking out from the soil. His friend told him it was probably a battery-operated toy but he decided to investigate further. What he dug out that afternoon was a baby boy, muddied but still alive.
Police investigations are ongoing, but it is believed the boy was delivered among the plants, in the same spot where he was buried. Police that day recovered some bloodied clothing just metres away from where the baby was found. There were also drops of blood at a stairwell on the same floor.
The baby's mother is believed to have worked here as a maid. But her work permit had already expired when she was arrested. She will be charged today with overstaying while the police continue to investigate her role in her son's abandonment.
-- ST
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Maid who buried newborn suffered depression
HER major depressive disorder led a mother to bury her newborn baby in a rooftop garden of a multi-storey carpark in Eunos Crescent in on April 11. The infant, his mouth stuffed with mud and dried leaves and his umbilical cord still attached, was found alive that same day by a retiree having a smoke.
On Friday, Indriani, 28, an Indonesian who goes by one name, was jailed six weeks for child abandonment. She was also jailed four weeks and fined $2,000 for overstaying here for 273 days. As she is unable to pay up, she will serve the one week default sentence. The jail term was backdated to April 26, the date of her remand.
She had pleaded guilty to both charges on Wednesday. Then, the district court heard that Indriani came here on March 6 last year to work as a maid. She ran off after four months and was deemed an overstayer from July 19, 2010.
According to investigations, she hid out at various parks. To earn money, she prostituted herself in Geylang. Last October, she discovered she was pregnant and had no idea who the father was.
She went into labour on the night of April 17 and sought refuge at the rooftop garden of Block 31A Eunos Crescent. At about 2am the next day, she gave birth to a baby boy. The mother hid the newborn in a 10cm deep hole she dug near some plants, and covered it with some soil and leaves. Indriani then left. The baby has since been placed in foster care by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports.
A psychiatric evaluation by the Institute of Mental Health indicated that she was suffering from a major depressive disorder when she abandoned the child. Shoulder-length hair tied neatly in a ponytail, the slim, 1.7m tall woman showed no expression throughout the hearing.
-- ST
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such are the woes of our times...
pray and bless that one day the child would be properly adopted and raised healthy and good in the arms of responsible parents...
Amitabha
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I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.In every cry of every Man,
In every Infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear.How the Chimney-sweeper’s cry
Every black’ning Church appalls;
And the hapless Soldier’s sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls.But most thro’ midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlot’s curse
Blasts the new born Infant’s tear,
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse. -
Mother of abandoned "Eunos baby" jailed 10 weeks, fined S$2,000
SINGAPORE: A former Indonesian maid was on Friday jailed 10 weeks and fined S$2,000 for abandoning her newborn baby at the rooftop garden of a multi-storey carpark, and for overstaying in Singapore for 273 days after her S-pass expired in July last year.
Investigations revealed that 27-year-old Indriani had arrived in Singapore in March last year to work as a domestic worker.
After four months, she ran away from her employer's residence. She later resorted to prostitution, and gave birth to the baby, a boy, at around 2am on April 18, at the rooftop garden at Blk 31A Eunos Crescent.
She then dug a hole and placed the newborn in it, before tying a plastic bag around his neck.
The baby was found alive later that day when 60-year-old retiree, Mr Tay King Sia, heard the baby crying.
The woman was arrested near Eunos MRT Station on April 24, less than a week after she abandoned her baby.
The baby has since been placed in foster care and has fully recovered from the incident.
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only 10 weeks and $2000?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by QX179R:
Mother of abandoned "Eunos baby" jailed 10 weeks, fined S$2,000
SINGAPORE: A former Indonesian maid was on Friday jailed 10 weeks and fined S$2,000 for abandoning her newborn baby at the rooftop garden of a multi-storey carpark, and for overstaying in Singapore for 273 days after her S-pass expired in July last year.
Investigations revealed that 27-year-old Indriani had arrived in Singapore in March last year to work as a domestic worker.
After four months, she ran away from her employer's residence. She later resorted to prostitution, and gave birth to the baby, a boy, at around 2am on April 18, at the rooftop garden at Blk 31A Eunos Crescent.
She then dug a hole and placed the newborn in it, before tying a plastic bag around his neck.
The baby was found alive later that day when 60-year-old retiree, Mr Tay King Sia, heard the baby crying.
The woman was arrested near Eunos MRT Station on April 24, less than a week after she abandoned her baby.
The baby has since been placed in foster care and has fully recovered from the incident.
-CNA/acShe is on an S pass and formerly worked as a maid?
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Why so many cases of S pass workers getting into trouble recently ?