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SINGAPORE: A woman was charged in court on Thursday (November 12) with murdering her 11-year-old daughter, with the victim’s stepfather as an accessory.
The couple, both 26, each received one count of murder with common intent.
They are charged with killing the victim in a Housing Board block sometime between November 6 and 10.
Not all parties can be named, as well as the location of the alleged crime, due to gag orders imposed by the court to protect the identity of the victim.
The prosecutor asked that the couple be held in preventive detention for a week to complete the investigations, as well as to revisit the site and retrieve evidence.
The woman said she has joint custody of two of her children with her ex-husband and that one of them will be going to primary school soon. She asked for a bond to settle school fees and admission to her son’s nursery, as well as to pass documents to her ex-husband.
The judge told her that there will be no bail for her due to the nature of the crime.
The stepfather said that he wanted to see his son, and later the woman said that he also wanted to see his children.
The judge told them to make their requests to the investigating officer and said that he was not in a position to grant their requests.
Police said in an earlier statement that they were alerted to a case of unnatural death around 1.20 p.m. Tuesday. The victim was taken unconscious to the Ng Teng Fong General Hospital at 11 a.m. that day and pronounced dead at 12:40 p.m.
Police arrested the two defendants, the biological mother of the victim and the stepfather of the victim, after investigations.
If convicted of murder with common intent, the couple could be sentenced to death.
