SINGAPORE: A former Kinderland Preschool@ Woodlands Mart Mandarin teacher admitted to abusing four children under her care on Wednesday ( Mar 5 ) at Kinderland Preschool@ Woodlands Mart.
The prosecutor was informed of how Lin Min, 35, allegedly forced two of them to drink fluids and allegedly handled them aggressively when they refused to.
Parents of these two toddlers noticed that their children had nightmares in which they would say “no” or “bye bye lao shi (teacher )”.  ,
After films of the incidents were made available online in 2023, the circumstance became the subject of investigation. After that, a few situations involving another teachers from the same school chain started to occur.  ,
Lin has since been suspended from the institution and barred from working in the daycare business.
She admitted guilt to three works of ill-treating a child and had three other similar-crime allegations taken into account when her punishment is decided. The four kids in the accusations ranged in age from one to three.
Due to a court-imposed joke purchase protecting their names, the patients cannot be identified.  ,
In June 2023, Lin allegedly forced one victim, a woman who was nearly two years older, to lay down and pour water into her mouth.
Another professor videoed her steps.  ,
Lin noticed that the lady had stopped drinking water. Lin leaned the jug toward the woman’s face in an effort to give her waters, but the girl snuck in the container.  ,
Lin therefore grabbed her around the mouth and demanded that she consume her water.  ,
As Lin raised her voice, the lady began to cry. The girl was finally pushed until she lay on the floor by Lin. The girl was therefore forced to drink water from the woman’s mouth before opening it. The woman may become choking on the water.
Before the school made the announcement, the kid’s parents were untrained. They observed the victim saying “no” and “bye bye lao shi (teacher ), which would indicate that she desired the teacher to leave.  ,
An unhappy Lin also made an unsuccessful attempt to drink water in June 2023 when a child was just two years old.  ,
She forced him to lie on the floor, but the boy frequently screamed and struggled to get up.  ,
Lin grabbed the boy’s face and held his head backwards as he poured water into his mouth on another event in the same quarter.  ,
The school provided additional information about the maltreatment, but the boy’s parents were unaware of it.  ,
Eventually, they afterward reported to the police that they had observed that their child did not like neighbors touching him around his head and back during examinations.  ,
He had say” no no, I don’t need” in hallucinations.  ,
Lin persisted, even though Deputy Public Prosecutor Jotham Tay claimed there was an obvious ingredient of violence in his actions because the children had been distressed.  ,
Mr. Tay disagreed with the defense, who called the situation an “overzealous problem.”  ,
Lin said it was obvious that he did not occasionally care about the well-being of kids.
Additionally, according to Mr. Tay, it had been challenging for children to report quite happenings because their parents had not been made aware of them until they had been made aware of them.  ,
Kalidass Murugaiyan, Lin’s attorney, set Lin’s case apart from earlier court cases in which defendants had acted intentionally. Lin, he claimed, had not been acting out of hatred and violence.  ,
His buyer, a professor in the care industry, was aware of the dangers of thirst in young kids, according to Mr. Kalidass.  ,
She misjudged, she made the wrong choice, and she will be paying a lot for it. We simply recommend that the rate not be too high, according to Mr. Kalidass.
District Judge John Ng moved the punishment date to March 13 to take into account the facts in this case.  ,
Lin may be imprisoned for up to eight years and/or subject to fines of up to S$ 8, 000 ( US$ 6, 000 ) for abusing a child.  ,