15-12-2022, 04:35 PM
Lydia Lam
15 Dec 2022 02:17PM
(Updated: 15 Dec 2022 02:17PM)
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The court heard that the accused, who is from India, began working for the victim's family in July 2020 as a domestic helper.
She was entrusted with the care of the victim and her one-year-old brother.
In mid-2021, the victim's mother began noticing bruises on her daughter. She later asked the maid about it, but the maid said she did not know how the girl got the bruises.
Thinking that the child had sustained the bruises from playing, the mother did not pursue the matter until January 2022, when she saw a bruise on her daughter's back.
Given the location of the bruise, the woman suspected that her daughter had been abused. She again confronted the maid, who denied any wrongdoing.
The mother of the victim then suspected that the abuse had occurred at her daughter's pre-school and lodged a police report.
However, the pre-school checked their closed-circuit television recordings and found nothing amiss.
The victim's mother meanwhile noticed that the maid appeared nervous after the police report was filed. The mother grew suspicious and checked the CCTV recordings in her home.
Some of the recordings were not available as the video overwrote automatically due to storage limits.
Video clips played in court showed the accused repeatedly pinching the three-year-old girl, who was lying down either trying to sleep or drinking milk.
At times, the girl would cry out and scream in pain afterwards, and the accused would soothe her by rubbing the area she had just pinched.
Full report at: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapor...id-3146366
15 Dec 2022 02:17PM
(Updated: 15 Dec 2022 02:17PM)
......
The court heard that the accused, who is from India, began working for the victim's family in July 2020 as a domestic helper.
She was entrusted with the care of the victim and her one-year-old brother.
In mid-2021, the victim's mother began noticing bruises on her daughter. She later asked the maid about it, but the maid said she did not know how the girl got the bruises.
Thinking that the child had sustained the bruises from playing, the mother did not pursue the matter until January 2022, when she saw a bruise on her daughter's back.
Given the location of the bruise, the woman suspected that her daughter had been abused. She again confronted the maid, who denied any wrongdoing.
The mother of the victim then suspected that the abuse had occurred at her daughter's pre-school and lodged a police report.
However, the pre-school checked their closed-circuit television recordings and found nothing amiss.
The victim's mother meanwhile noticed that the maid appeared nervous after the police report was filed. The mother grew suspicious and checked the CCTV recordings in her home.
Some of the recordings were not available as the video overwrote automatically due to storage limits.
Video clips played in court showed the accused repeatedly pinching the three-year-old girl, who was lying down either trying to sleep or drinking milk.
At times, the girl would cry out and scream in pain afterwards, and the accused would soothe her by rubbing the area she had just pinched.
Full report at: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapor...id-3146366