Two young sisters in Singapore endured abuse and neglect from their fathers for nearly two years, including being kept dressed in the bathroom for about ten weeks.
The man, who had trained in silat, karate and reiki, would  , repeatedly blow, hit, blow and cane the babies, treating them as “punching luggage” for his anger.
He was sentenced to 34 and a half years in prison and 12 cane strikes on Tuesday ( Apr 30 ) for killing his five-year-old daughter and abusing her and her younger brother.
After her dad smacked the lady face up to 20 days in the bathroom where the two kids were kept for the entire time, the woman died in August 2017.  , She weighed only 13.2kg at the time of her demise.
According to gag orders protecting the personality of the victim’s surviving nephew, the 44-year-old person cannot be identified.
The victim’s name was recently protected, but on Tuesday, the judge granted her the right to be identified by her first title, Ayeesha,” so world may consider her.”
Calling the long word extraordinary, Justice Aedit Abdullah said the gentleman had subjected his children to “inhumane, disgusting abuse”, and that his sentence had to reveal the “abhorrence and contempt of the neighborhood”.
Retribution is the main consideration, as the state’s condemnation of such abhorrent and sickening deeds is reflected in punishment. Additionally, other people must be systematically prevented from engaging in any kind of abuse.
The man was originally on trial for the capital charge of murder in Ayeesha’s death. After the prosecution dropped a lesser charge of culpable homicide, he made the decision to admit to the crimes.
He wept as the abuse details were loudly read out, and he wept when videos of him hitting Ayeesha and her brother at home were shown to witnesses in court on Tuesday.
He pleaded guilty to six charges comprising one charge of culpable homicide, four charges of child abuse and one charge of disposing evidence. Sentencing for another 20 cases involving child abuse and lying to police officers was taken into account.
The prosecution announced that it would review the case against Ayeesha’s stepmother, who was named as a co-accused in the allegations of confinement of the children to the bathroom. The woman previously testified as a prosecution witness.
CHILDREN EAT THEIR OWN FAECES OUT OF HUNGER.
From the offender’s first marriage, Ayeesha and her brother were his biological children. They entered foster care in June 2014, but returned to live with the offender and his second wife in early 2015.
From 2003 to 2016, the man served as an auxiliary police officer or security officer for various businesses. He worked in a fast food restaurant from 2016 to April 2017. He was unemployed after that.
He began purchasing less diapers and food in 2015 as a result of his financial difficulties. Additionally, he and his wife reduced the children’s meals to twice per day.
Ayeesha and her brother started playing with and eating their own faeces because they were hungry, and they lost weight.
The man and his wife started physically abusing the children by hitting them toward the end of 2015. When her brother was two, Ayeesha was three.
In one incident in December 2015, the man repeatedly punched and smacked Ayeesha and her brother after noticing rice, flour, curry powder, utensils and faeces strewn across the kitchen.
He witnessed Ayeesha and her brother eating the mattress ‘ contents in a separate incident in February 2016. Additionally, their diapers were torn.
He forcefully slapped them, causing their heads to hit each other.
CONFINED IN SMALL SPACES
After he complained that the children frequently awoke earlier than the adults and left a mess in the house, the man and his wife decided to confine them in a “naughty corner” that month.
The couple barricaded Ayeesha and her brother between a bookshelf and a wardrobe in a corner of their bedroom, in a space measuring about 90cm by 90cm.
From February to October 2016, they only allowed the children to go outside to eat and take a bath, keeping them there all day even when they had not behaved.
The abuse continued, and it was discovered by a couple who had installed a closed-circuit television (CCTV ) camera in the “naughty corner.”
On one occasion on Mar 27, 2016, the man repeatedly slapped, punched, caned and kicked Ayeesha after seeing that she had smeared her faeces on the wall.
The man was seen delivering 86 blows to the young girl with her brother next to her in the court-released CCTV footage. Both kids were wearing only diapers, respectively.
The assault lasted 16 minutes. At one point, he repeatedly smacked and pounded Ayeesha’s face, leaving her motionless for the next two and a half hours.
Ayeesha and her brother were repeatedly caned in a double-seater pram in the living room on another occasion on August 27, 2016.
In CCTV footage of the assault, which lasted 24 minutes, the man scolded Ayeesha and her brother and caned their legs and heads.
The couple made the decision to move the “naughty corner” in the kitchen to the toilet in October 2016. When the man and his wife wanted to use the restroom, they only permitted the children to go outside to be fed.
The children were kept naked in the toilet, which was often stained with their faeces.
FATHER WANTED TO OPPOSE KIDS FOR ADOPTION.
The children had not been to any schools since May 2015, and records of their encounters with social services indicated that case officers had not seen them at the time.
After the two children returned to their father’s care in 2015, Thye Hua Kwan- Tanjong Pagar Family Service Centre ( FSC), which worked with the Ministry of Social and Family Development ( MSF), continued monitoring their welfare.
The man informed the case officer from the FSC that Ayeesha and her brother would soon be residing with his mother-in-law at a counseling session on May 25, 2015.
Up until Ayeesha’s passing, a case officer had to see the children once more. The man did not bring the children to all subsequent visits to the FSC, and would often lie that they were with his relatives.
The man claimed at a later session in September 2015 that both of his children were registered at a different childcare facility and were still living with his mother-in-law.
Despite calling, sending messages, and visiting the family’s home between October 2015 and September 2016, the case officer was unable to reach the man. These all went unanswered.
On September 1, 2016, the man and his wife went to Thye Hua Kwan FSC and lied to the case manager that his brother was taking care of the two children.
The case officer called the case officer the following month with the idea that he might be able to hurt Ayeesha and her brother out of anger.
The case officer notified MSF, asked the man to bring his children down to the FSC the next day, and also advised him to tap on his neighbours or parents to care for the children that night.
However, the man went by himself to Thye Hua Kwan FSC the following day. He made up the falsehood that Ayeesha and her brother were living with his mother but that she was unable to care for them long-term.
When the case officer suggested arranging foster care, the man said he wanted to give them up for adoption. He was given the contact information for the adoption service Apkim Centre of Social Services.
He and his wife went to Apkim later, but he did not bring the children with him and lied that his mother was looking after them.
An Apkim officer informed him that the adoption process could not proceed unless the children’s biological mother also gave consent, or unless MSF could facilitate doing away with that requirement.
The man was called by a new Thye Hua Kwan FSC officer on November 10th, 2016. He once more lied to the officer that the children were staying with his mother, and he also informed the officer of his adoption inquiry.
On Feb 14, 2017, the couple visited Thye Hua Kwan FSC to request financial support.
The FSC case officer visited the couple’s apartment on April 27, 2017. The woman of the man’s wife demanded that they leave the apartment to talk, claiming that their husband needed to exit the living room to take a shower. The court previously heard they lived in a one- room rented flat.
The woman informed the case officer that Apkim was still handling the adoption when the case officer and the man’s wife reached the void deck.
On June 21, 2017, the man’s wife informed the FSC case officer that her husband was following up with Apkim regarding the adoption and that Thye Hua Kwan FSC had requested that their case be closed less than two months prior to Ayeesha’s passing.
AYEESHA’S DEATH
Ayeesha and her brother were sleeping in the toilet at around 9 o’clock on August 10, 2017, when their stepmother demanded that they move their legs because they had not been moving outside all day.
Ayeesha’s stepmother complained to the offender, but Ayeesha’s brother followed what was told, and her stepmother followed.
The man went to the toilet, pulled Ayeesha up from the ground and smacked her face 15 to 20 times. Her head was tilted backwards in a awkward position when he placed her on the ground.
The man then slept. At about 3am, his wife complained that the siblings were sleeping in a weird posture, so he went to the toilet, where he assaulted the children.
On August 11, 2017, the family went about their day while the two siblings remained in the bathroom.
The children’s stepmother went to the bathroom that evening and discovered Ayeesha, who was facing up with her eyes closed, cold and unresponsive.
The woman called Ayeesha’s father over. He performed a cardiopulmonary resuscitation but realized that his daughter had passed away.
tries to hide his tracks
The man told his wife he was going to” clean up the evidence”.
He removed the CCTV camera from his home, a mobile phone, a pair of scissors, a rubber hose, bath towels, and a child safety gate, and threw them away in different garbage disposals nearby on August 12, 2017. These were never recovered.
He also devised a plan to protect his wife from legal consequences by telling her to pretend that the two children had been with him at his mother’s house, while she was at home.
He followed up with her by assaulting her in order for her to file a police report against him to protect herself. Later that day, the woman filed a report.
The man then brought Ayeesha’s body and his son to Singapore General Hospital in a pram. Emergency personnel tried unsuccessfully to revive Ayeesha, but she died at 10.49 am.
The doctor who examined Ayeesha noticed that her body had a foul odor and examined the girl for extensive injuries. The hospital informed the police about the case.
When the man lied to the hospital’s police that he was having breakfast with Ayeesha and her brother when he arrived and brought her to the hospital.
He was taken into custody that afternoon and brought in for further investigation.
He continued lying in four more statements to police, claiming that Ayeesha had hit her head and tumbled down a slide at a playground the night before, and that he and the children had spent the night away from the flat.
When police footage of him returning to his block alone in the early hours of August 12, 2017, revealed that he had admitted to lying on August 18, 2017, he only made that admission.
SURVIVING SON
Ayeesha’s brother, who was almost four when she died, was also seen by doctors at SGH and referred to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
He was placed there until November 2017 and then placed in foster care.
Apart from severe malnourishment, it was discovered that he also had a global developmental delay, which included social deprivation. He did not speak and was socially withdrawn and unable to stand independently.
Ayeesha and her brother appeared listless and expressionless as they were taken back home in a pram, only to move when their stepmother instructed them to. The man’s wife took the couple’s video around the end of August 2016.
After this and other videos of the abuse were screened in court, Deputy Public Prosecutor Norine Tan said,” What we watched in a few minutes today was their life every day for two years.”
The abuse inflicted by the man on his children” squarely falls within the worst of its type” and would “break the will of any human being”, let alone very young children, Ms Tan told the court.
The prosecution wanted at least 12 cane strokes and 30 to 34 years in prison total.
The defense requested a shorter sentence, arguing that previous cases set precedents of 18 to 20 years in jail, and included lawyers , Mervyn Cheong, Krishna R Sharma, Melvin Loh, and Lim Yi Zheng.
A sentence of 30 to 34 years would be unprecedented, Mr Cheong said, but Ms Tan countered that this was because the facts of the case were themselves unprecedented.
Justice Aedit made note in his decision that the offender had subjected his children to both mental and emotional trauma as well as physical abuse.
He claimed that the man had “mutated” the idea of a “naughty corner” into a torture device after using it as a temporary punishment for some parents.
” You went far beyond any measure of discipline and essentially used these children as punching bags for whatever frustration or anger you felt”, said the judge.
Your regrets cannot prevent Ayeesha’s passing or the suffering she and your son endured. You must find peace with what you did.
The man’s mother, brother and niece also attended the hearing, and spoke to him after his sentencing.
He could have been imprisoned for life or for up to 20 years, with a fine and caning, for culpable homicide that did not amount to murder.
A child who treats a child poorly will receive four years in prison, a fine of S$ 4, 000, or both.
For disposing of evidence in a culpable homicide, the man could have been jailed for up to seven years and fined.