Man who abused his three children jailed for ill-treatment and drug offences
Published on Mar 27, 2015 6:35 PM
By Elena Chong
SINGAPORE - A man who used a heated metal fork to wound his three children on their hand or forearm was jailed on Friday for child abuse.
The 42-year-old, who cannot be named due to a gag order, did this to "punish" them for having played with fire.
They had used a lighter to burn cardboard in the kitchen toilet in 2010. When he came home, he found pieces of paper with burnt marks inside the kitchen toilet.
He called the children into the living room, used a lighter to heat a metal fork and pressed it on the hand of his then 11-year-old daughter. He called his middle child, then seven, over and pressed the heated metal fork to his right forearm. He did the same to his six-year-old son.
