SINGAPORE: While feeding a one-year-old son his breakfast, 29-year-old Hsu Yee Mon hit the boy’s face with her hands, leaving him with a scar on his proper face and lips.
On Tuesday ( Jan 21 ), the Myanmar domestic worker was sentenced to a year’s jail after she pleaded guilty to one charge of ill-treating a child.
She had moreover pressed the teen’s chest and punched him in the stomach, court records stated.
The boy’s name and location of the crime may be published under a judge get protecting the victim’s personality.
WHAT HAPPENED
The court heard that on Jul 1 next year, the child was restless. Thus, his parents left him under Hsu’s care at home while they were at job instead of taking him to the care center.
Court records did not state how much Hsu has been employed by the kids.
At 6. 34pm, the child began to cry while seated in a child seat in the living room as Hsu fed him meal.
Hsu therefore took a tissues to wipe the teen’s teeth and after a while, the child recently stopped crying.
Deputy Public Prosecutor ( DPP ) Darren Ang told the court that Hsu then pressed the boy’s stomach with her hands, before immediately hitting the child’s right cheek.
Images captured by a closed-circuit broadcast lens in the life area showed that as a result of the hit, the boy swung towards the remaining and the child seat he was sitting on dimly tilted off the ground.
” The victim’s head just missed the roof on his left, and if his brain had made immediate contact with the roof, it may have caused him more injuries,” said DPP Ang.
After being hit, the child began crying afterwards. Hsu then punched him in his stomach area, causing him to cry yet more intensely.
As the film was shown in court, some moans could be heard from people sitting in the courtroom’s people museum.
The child suffered a scar on his right face and lower left lip, as well as an internal ulcer.
DPP Ang said that Hsu retrieved a pot of honey from the house and applied some to the murderer’s mouth. This was to create the injury less apparent and conceal what she did.
When the boy’s parents returned apartment at about 6. 40pm , Hsu lied to them that the child had fallen.
Nevertheless, the boy’s parents viewed the Camera footage and discovered Hsu had hit the target. The next day, he made a police statement.
” During examinations, the accused maintained her stay, that the sufferer had sustained the several injuries after falling down, to the officers,” said DPP Ang.
” The accused even claimed that she did not tell the victim’s kids that she had hit the target, because she did not think that she hit him that brutally. “
ACTIONS WERE “EGREGIOUS”: Determine
DPP Ang sought a sentence of 10 to 12 weeks, describing Hsu’s behavior as “highly aggravating”.
” The prey was just one month old and was wholly vulnerable against Hsu Yee Mon,” he told the court.
The attorney said that it was coincidental that the child did not hit his head against the corner of a roof, which was” a few centimetres ahead” from where he was seated.
DPP Ang added that Hsu had attempted to escape recognition by lying to the boy’s parents and the authorities in calling for the word.
In her prevention, Hsu said through a interpreter that she was contrite and that she could hardly control her frustration during the event.
She furthermore pleaded for mercy, adding that she is a housewife and the sole father for her two children and her kids.
District Judge Shaiffudin Saruwan agreed with the trial, describing Hsu’s behavior as severe.
“( The victim ) was utterly defenceless against you,” said the judge, adding that Hsu’s slap had caused the boy’s body to swing to the left.
For ill-treating a child under her care, Hsu could have been jailed for up to eight years, fined up to S$ 8,000 ( US$ 5,890 ) or both.