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SINGAPORE – Enraged after an argument with his ex-wife, a man told his daughter to take sleeping pills to annoy the woman, which landed the 11-year-old girl in hospital for more than a month.
When visiting his daughter in the hospital, the man instructed his daughter to say that she had voluntarily taken the pills to commit suicide.
The 40-year-old pleaded guilty to one count of perverting the course of justice, one count of mistreating his daughter, who is now 14, and one count of using abusive words with a police officer in an unrelated incident. . Three other charges will be considered for his sentencing, which was postponed until December 9 for his lawyer to obtain a medical report on the man’s mother.
Neither party can be named due to a gag order.
As the man had continuous marital disputes with his wife, he lived apart from her, but he stayed with his mother, daughter, and nine-year-old son. On the night of April 7, 2018, the victim was feeling ill and sent a message to her mother asking her to take her to the doctor.
Since the mother wanted to avoid the man, she asked her daughter to take a taxi to her apartment. The victim chose not to do so and remained at her Toa Payoh apartment.
That night, her father called her mother and the two got into a fight over the phone.
After the fight, the agitated father called his daughter to his bedroom. He had him retrieve a bottle of sleeping pills that his mother had been prescribed. The pills contained amitriptyline, which was considered a poison under the Poison List Law.
After the girl did as she was told, her father instructed her to eat the pills. Feeling overwhelmed, the girl took six pills. Then they told him to go to the playground outside his apartment.
Man wanted to blame the girl’s mother for her daughter’s condition
While on the playground, the man told his daughter that he wanted to show her mother that their arguments had made the girl feel stressed and that the mother was to blame for not taking proper care of her son.
The father asked the girl to take several more pills and she did.
The girl soon felt weak and drowsy and then lost consciousness. The man and his son took the girl to her mother’s apartment. While en route, the father called 995 for help.
The trio arrived at the mother’s apartment around 3.45 a.m. on April 8. When the mother opened the door to the apartment, she saw her daughter lying on the ground just outside the door.
“The defendant then told (the mother) that she would be responsible if something happened to the victim,” Assistant District Attorney Joshua Phang told the court.
An ambulance arrived shortly after and took the girl to the hospital. A later medical report diagnosed the girl with an amitriptyline overdose. She had arrived at the hospital drowsy. A police report was filed through the Singapore Civil Defense Force. He claimed that a 12-year-old girl took pills and tried to jump on a Woodlands apartment.
She was protected for a month and a week. During his stay in the hospital, his father told him to lie to the police that he had voluntarily taken the pills to commit suicide.
Following her instructions, the girl told a police officer that she had eaten the pills because she felt that no one in her family was taking care of her and that she had attempted suicide. The police officer, who is investigating the girl for attempted suicide, recorded her words in a statement while her father was present at her side.
On June 16, 2018, the police told the girl that no further action would be taken against her. However, the father’s actions came to light in August 2018 when the girl spoke to social workers about the incident.
Separately, the man was seen outside of a bathroom having a picnic and “drinking some rolled substance” at Changi Beach Park on January 2 last year. Police investigating the incident approached the man to ask for his NRIC and number. The man reacted hostilely and yelled at the officer, “Of course I can remember, stupid huh? Do you have your fucking brain or not? Can’t you ask a stupid question? “Then he yelled his number to the police officer.
After reviewing the details of the man, the officer discovered that there was an outstanding arrest warrant issued against the man. Then the man was arrested.
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