A 43-year-old man in Singapore is facing 26 charges, including a capital charge for the murder of his daughter whom he allegedly assaulted and ill-treated until she died at the age of 5, according to The Straits Times.
He had allegedly started ill-treating his daughter when she was just 3 years old until she died at the age of 5 in 2017.
He is also being charged with ill-treating his son from when he was 2 years old until he was 4 during the same period, from December 2015 to August 2017.
The man is facing a total of 26 charges, including a capital charge for murdering his daughter, which he will stand trial for in July.
For his murder charge, he is being accused of causing his daughter’s death between 9 pm on 10 August 2017 to the wee hours of 11 August 2017, the next day. However, his charge didn’t go into detail as to how his daughter died.
He cannot be named or identified due to a court order issued to protect the identity of his son.
The man is also facing 10 charges for ill-treating his deceased daughter, including punching, clapping, kicking, lifting her up by her neck against a wall, throwing the girl onto a mattress, pointing scissors at her, confining her in a corner of a room and confining her inside a toilet.
He is also facing 9 other charges for ill-treating his son as well, with similar methods.
The man also allegedly disposed of evidence including a phone, cane, camera, scissors, rubber hose, bath towels and a child safety gate.
After being arrested, he also allegedly lied in 5 statements provided to the police from 12 August 2017 to 17 August 2017, relating to the circumstances surrounding his daughter’s death – he had told investigators that his daughter died after hitting her head on a slide at a playground.
His case has been adjourned to Friday (19 May).