Mother who scalded 5-year old convicted of murder on appeal; father gets life term

Delivering the particular judgment on behalf of a five-judge panel, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon said that Azlin has been solely responsible for the very first and third scalding incidents, while the girl carried out the second and fourth scalding situations jointly with Ridzuan.

During the first incident between April 15 to 17, 2016, Azlin grabbed her son by the ankle to prevent your pet from running away and poured hot water on his leg plus hand several times.

In the second occurrence from Oct seventeen to 19, 2016, Azlin threw many cups of hot water at the boy, who yelled at her: “Kau gila ke apa? “, meaning “Are you crazy or even what? ”

Ridzuan heard this particular and threw more hot water at the child.

The third incident on Oct twenty one, 2016 took place when Azlin became upset with the boy plus chased him across the living room, throwing 9 to 10 cups of hot water at your pet.

A day later in a fourth occurrence,   Azlin informed her husband to “deal with” the child after he failed to want to remove his shorts to take a bath.

Ridzuan hit the child with a broom just before throwing cups of warm water on him. The particular boy crouched lower in the toilet when he was attacked and eventually fell forward plus stopped moving.

He was delivered to hospital after a lot more than six hours as his parents were afraid of getting imprisoned. He went into shock during surgery and died of his injuries a day after he was admitted.