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Feb 25, 2010
Mom jailed for killing daughter
A SUICIDAL and depressed woman who killed her sleeping teenage daughter last year was sent to jail for five years yesterday. The prosecution had asked that Goh Hai Eng, 52, be jailed for at least seven years on the charge of manslaughter. She could have been jailed for up to 20 years or life. But High Court judge Kan Ting Chiu, referring to a 2007 case in which a delusional husband was jailed five years for killing his pregnant wife, said Goh should not get a heavier sentence. In sentencing Goh, Justice Kan noted that she had been a law-abiding person who has been treated for bipolar disorder, a mood disorder, since 1999. It was 'extremely unfortunate', said the judge, that she stopped taking her medication in December 2008 after her older daughter gave birth. Without medication, Goh had a relapse but no one in her family noticed. The twice-divorced mother of two lived with her younger daughter.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
Feb 25, 2010
Mom jailed for killing daughter
A SUICIDAL and depressed woman who killed her sleeping teenage daughter last year was sent to jail for five years yesterday. The prosecution had asked that Goh Hai Eng, 52, be jailed for at least seven years on the charge of manslaughter. She could have been jailed for up to 20 years or life. But High Court judge Kan Ting Chiu, referring to a 2007 case in which a delusional husband was jailed five years for killing his pregnant wife, said Goh should not get a heavier sentence. In sentencing Goh, Justice Kan noted that she had been a law-abiding person who has been treated for bipolar disorder, a mood disorder, since 1999. It was 'extremely unfortunate', said the judge, that she stopped taking her medication in December 2008 after her older daughter gave birth. Without medication, Goh had a relapse but no one in her family noticed. The twice-divorced mother of two lived with her younger daughter.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
