Sadasivam Kannan, 61-years-old, pleaded guilty to one count of voluntarily causing hurt to a vulnerable person.

He was sentenced to 3 weeks imprisonment on 23 August.

2 other staff nurses were also charged for assaulting the patient, Muhammad Ihsan Mahmud, 32, and Iylia Muhammad Afiq Nor Effendi, 25.

What happened?

Sadasivam had assaulted an IMH patient because he was stressed and angered by his aggressive behavior.

The victim is a 59-year-old man who is suffering from chronic schizophrenia and had been a patient at IMH since 2005.

The victim was incapable of protecting himself because of his mental illness.

He was moved to a lounge area following a haircut and started playing with another patient’s urinal, splashing urine on an attending nurse.

Ihsan heard about what happened and he then used hand sanitiser to splash on the victim’s face.

The victim then caused a disturbance in the lounge, to which the trio then used 3 restraints on him.

The victim then became agitated and Ihsan then punched him in the face twice.

The victim continued being aggressive and kicked the nurses, the three accused then subdued him by holding him down.

Sadasivam was fixing the restraints onto the victim at the time, when the victim then kicked another patient.

This made Sadasivam very angry and he then slapped the back of his head, scolding him.

The victim started cowering and soon calmed down, and Sadasivam then continued trying to fix the restraints onto him.

The victim then rocked his head back and forth, putting his head near Sadasivam’s head, to which Sadasivam slapped the victim again.

Iylia is also being accused of slapping the victim on his back, neck and shoulder as well, multiple times.

He is also being accused of nearly causing the victim to fall off his wheelchair by tilting it forward and sideways.

CCTV footage of the incident was played in court.

Iylia later found that the victim suffered bruises around his right eye, and put an ice pack onto it.

He then made a report to IMH’s management about the injuries, resulting in a HR manager reporting the incident to the police.

The victim was then conveyed to SGH, where they found that he suffered a fractured toe, bruised eyes, jaw and toes.

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A netizen was rejected by the hiring company because they decided that an intern is cheaper than hiring a normal full-time staff.

It is evident that most companies will always focus on hiring cheaper employees rather than quality. This is the reason why we are not only competition our jobs from interns but also foreign talents.

Netizens who saw the image said:

You dodged the bullet thereby not joining that company. I think your time is worth so much more than the terms they had offered you.

Jobs are hard to get these days, but press on! You could try something different, maybe cold email an employee of an interesting company that you want to join. You could propose a few cool ideas that could help the company (e.g. grow revenue, get more customers) – these are more interesting than simply resumes to employees.

I didn’t have much success as you in getting jobs through formal applications but it was only when I started cold emailing companies was when I got some job offers. It’s a different approach you may want to try.

That said, keep going, and all the best! Hope you find a good one next.

Companies using interns to cut cost

My previous industry preferred intern headcounts over perm staff headcounts. The internship lasts 3-6 months depending on poly/uni.

When the internship is over, they often offer them temp contracts and let them stay up to between a few months to x months after new interns come in. Then these ex-interns/temp staff will train and hand-over to the new batch of interns before leaving. The cycle continues.

The 16-year-old ax killer from River Valley High School who was charged with the murder of a Sec One boy was previously remanded for psychiatric assessment at IMH.

His assessment has since been completed and he is due to be remanded for a week at Cantonment.

He appeared in court on 24 August via video link, although the psychiatric assessment findings were not revealed.

The police will make arrangements for him to speak to his family in due time.

Recap

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According to a Police media release, a 57-year-old man was arrested for his suspected involvement in a series of theft of undergarments.

The reports revealed that on 21 August 2021, the Police was alerted to a case of theft and undergarments outside a residential unit along Mei Ling Street was stolen.

Police CCTV

Officers from the Clementi Police Division identified the guy and detained him on August 23, 2021, using ground investigations and pictures from police cameras. According to preliminary investigations, the individual is suspected of being engaged in other similar instances in the area.

The man will be charged in court on 25 August 2021, with theft under Section 379 of the Penal Code.

The offence carries a jail term that may extend to three years, a fine, or both.

Smoking at home is an issue getting outta hand. Smokers, you can smoke at home BUT- Please be considerate and close your windows and doors tight when you smoke.

You open up windows stand near windows and smoke the smoke will definitely float to another person’s house. If you shut your windows tight, there is a much lesser chance for the smoke to float out.

You open up your windows and blow the smoke out in order not to smoke up your own house but you want to smoke up another person’s house above or below yours?- Don’t give excuses like cooking also creates smoke. Precisely we’ve enough smoke everywhere we don’t need more unnecessary smoke pollution from cigarettes- Don’t ask us to live in a jungle. We didn’t create the issue.

You created the issue and you should resolve it. The easiest way is to close your windows tight when you smoke at home- 2nd hand smoke causes higher chance of cancer then 1st hand smoke.

Please think of the children and old people staying below and above you

Another netizen said:

My neighbour even smoke at the kitchen window, after smoke she some more throw cigarette butt at our aircon ledge, more worst than yours!

Another netizen said:

same as our upper unit they smoke in their window kitchen 3x a day and even their cigarette ash is dropping into our windows and sometimes dropped into our kitchen floor, and we have 2 senior in the house both 86yrs old husband and wife