SINGAPORE: A probation report has been called on Thursday for a 14-year-old girl who held her 10-year-old male relative while her mother splashed hot oil on him.
The girl, her parents and two sisters aged 20 and 24, were arrested in June this year.
Channel NewsAsia understands the 46-year-old mother, who works as a cleaner, is the grand-aunt of the boy.
The
court heard the boy -- who started living with the family at age four
when his biological mother went to prison -- had been abused since 2009.
Early
this year, the girl and her sisters complained to their mother that the
boy had eaten all the food in the house, and was playing with the gas
stove.
Their mother then instructed the three of them to hold
the boy's arms and legs down while she heated cooking oil in a frying
pan.
The woman then took off his shirt and used a ladle to splash hot oil from the frying pan onto his face and bare body.
She then told her daughters to turn him around, where she repeated the act on his bare back.
A
medical report by Dr Sharon Wong of KK Women's and Children's Hospital
revealed the boy suffered facial deformities, including multiple
first-degree burns and several scars over his head and face.
The boy is currently in a welfare home.
Two other charges against the girl - of voluntarily causing hurt - were also taken into consideration.
On
two separate occasions, she had aided her mother by holding the boy
down while her mother snipped his fingers with a pair of scissors, and
pressed a hot ladle against his back.
In mitigation, her
lawyer, Mr M S Rajendran, said she was "not thinking rationally when she
was confronted with obedience towards her mother".
The court also heard the girl knew the boy was in pain and "felt sorry for him but could not bring herself to defy her mother".
Her lawyer added the girl is currently in a girls' home and is remorseful.
Her uncle and aunt have offered to take custody of her and have signed a bond ensuring her good behaviour.
Both her parents and sisters will have their cases mentioned in court on 23 December.
- CNA/wk
you shouldn't even pour hot oil on animals, not to say treat a defenseless child that way. This is very cruel
wad a Bitches they are
hope they kena burn in prison
Originally posted by Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1):wad a Bitches they are
hope they kena burn in prison
Comes from a country who kills animals, fries their meat and savor it. What goes around, comes back in different ways.
Originally posted by Bio-Hawk:
Comes from a country who kills animals, fries their meat and savor it.
???
Originally posted by Bio-Hawk:
Comes from a country who kills animals, fries their meat and savor it. What goes around, comes back in different ways.
I think the issue with eating animals is irrelevant here. If there's karma, all the people should suffer sunburns from a big big hole in the sky, and why is that little boy there chosen to suffer for you and I?