A 36-year-old delivery driver pleaded guilty to two charges of ill treatment of a child, as well as one charge each of voluntarily causing hurt and harassment.
He was fined and jailed 9 months yesterday (10 August).
5 more charges were considered during sentencing, of which one was for a road rage incident.
He had reportedly bit his son, choked him and used a bicycle cord to tie him up.
What happened?
The wife of the man brought their two sons to the polyclinic in November 2018, after the older boy bit his younger brother on the right thigh while playing.
The man found out about it and caned his older son, before biting him on the thigh; he wanted him to feel how painful it was being bitten.
The following month, the boy was brought for a scheduled visit to the hospital and a nurse saw the man grabbing his son roughly and forcing him to lie down, holding his legs.
The police were called in.
The boy was found with injuries by a doctor.
Some time in March 2019, the same boy was in his father’s van collecting parcels when he vomited inside the vehicle.
The man got angry and grabbed the boy, choking him by lifting him up by the neck and back.
The boy started crying and screaming, as his father then told him that he hated him.
The father then tied the boy’s hands together with a bicycle cord, as the boy struggled to break free and dislodged a tooth in the process.
A passer-by witness snippets of the incident then called the police, who traced the man through his van’s license plate.
The boy was admitted into the hospital for 6 days before he was discharged and put under his maternal grandmother’s care.
The man was separately involved in a road rage incident, verbally abusing a bus driver some time in July 2018.
The man was involved in yet another incident in July 2019, throwing a chair at his wife (he missed) during an argument where she accused him of having an affair.
She then ran towards him and bit his right shoulder, before he bit her arms in retaliation as she then grabbed a knife from the kitchen and stabbed him.
The couple were then arrested after the police were called.
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