Singapore

Remains found in pot case: Mum gets discharge not amounting to acquittal for murder of toddler


SINGAPORE – A woman accused of killing her two-year-old daughter, whose remains were found inside a metal pot five years after the alleged crime, has been temporarily let off the hook for murder.

The 32-year-old was granted on Tuesday (March 2) a discharge not amounting to an acquittal for her murder charge.

A discharge not amounting to an acquittal means that she can still be prosecuted for the offence later, depending on the evidence that emerges.

The woman is still facing 12 additional charges, including multiple counts of abuse involving four other children. Her case is expected to be heard again on March 14.

She and her 33-year-old husband were charged in September 2019 for killing their daughter in a Chin Swee Road flat in March 2014. The toddler’s remains were found in the pot in 2019.

They cannot be named due to a gag order to protect the children’s identities.

As for the father, the AGC said in an earlier statement that it would be proceeding on the murder charge against him.

He faces 13 other charges, including child abuse, perverting the course of justice by disposing of and concealing the dead girl’s body, giving false information to a public servant on her whereabouts, and drug consumption.





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