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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR>Oct 13, 2009
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Father scalds girl for lying <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->FURIOUS that his young daughter had lied to him about stealing at school, a 34-year-old man poured hot water over her to teach her a lesson she would not forget.
After he had done this, he caned the nine-year-old for lying and stealing, stopping only when her stepmother intervened.
On Monday, the slim-built self-employed man, who was left as a single father after his wife walked out when the girl was five days old, admitted in court to scalding his daughter on July 10.
It was only six days later that she was allowed to go back to school, where her teacher noticed the peeling wound on her face and called in the authorities.
The child was hospitalised for 17 days for burns on her left cheek, waist, right arm and the front of her body.
She also had cane marks on her left upper arm and back.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times. [email protected]
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Father scalds girl for lying <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
</TD></TR><!-- show image if available --></TBODY></TABLE>
<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->FURIOUS that his young daughter had lied to him about stealing at school, a 34-year-old man poured hot water over her to teach her a lesson she would not forget.
After he had done this, he caned the nine-year-old for lying and stealing, stopping only when her stepmother intervened.
On Monday, the slim-built self-employed man, who was left as a single father after his wife walked out when the girl was five days old, admitted in court to scalding his daughter on July 10.
It was only six days later that she was allowed to go back to school, where her teacher noticed the peeling wound on her face and called in the authorities.
The child was hospitalised for 17 days for burns on her left cheek, waist, right arm and the front of her body.
She also had cane marks on her left upper arm and back.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times. [email protected]
