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Jan 16, 2010
Mum killed teen daughter
Depressed divorcee, who stopped her medication for mental illness, tried to kill herself too
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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> DEPRESSED and suicidal, a twice-divorced mother called her older sister and said she was leaving the furniture in her one-room flat to her. Less than four hours later, Goh Hai Eng, fixated about taking her 14-year-old daughter along with her, plunged a knife into the sleeping teenager's chest. The jobless woman then drank a cocktail containing alcohol and the medicine she had been prescribed for her bipolar disorder. She waited until the girl breathed her last before calling her older daughter and sister to tell them what she had done. On Friday, Goh, 52, admitted killing her daughter, Eunice Chew Li Xin, in their Woodlands flat on March 19 last year. A court interpreter had to ask her three times how she wanted to plead to the manslaughter charge. The first time, she grinned and said in Mandarin: 'I do not know.' The second time, she responded: 'I have nothing to say.' When asked a third time, she confirmed she was pleading guilty and stuck her tongue out in an amused manner. The case was adjourned on Friday, pending confirmation from a psychiatrist from the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) that Goh qualified for the defence of diminished responsibility.
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
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Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story
Jan 16, 2010
Mum killed teen daughter
Depressed divorcee, who stopped her medication for mental illness, tried to kill herself too
<!-- by line --> By Selina Lum
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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> DEPRESSED and suicidal, a twice-divorced mother called her older sister and said she was leaving the furniture in her one-room flat to her. Less than four hours later, Goh Hai Eng, fixated about taking her 14-year-old daughter along with her, plunged a knife into the sleeping teenager's chest. The jobless woman then drank a cocktail containing alcohol and the medicine she had been prescribed for her bipolar disorder. She waited until the girl breathed her last before calling her older daughter and sister to tell them what she had done. On Friday, Goh, 52, admitted killing her daughter, Eunice Chew Li Xin, in their Woodlands flat on March 19 last year. A court interpreter had to ask her three times how she wanted to plead to the manslaughter charge. The first time, she grinned and said in Mandarin: 'I do not know.' The second time, she responded: 'I have nothing to say.' When asked a third time, she confirmed she was pleading guilty and stuck her tongue out in an amused manner. The case was adjourned on Friday, pending confirmation from a psychiatrist from the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) that Goh qualified for the defence of diminished responsibility.
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
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