SINGAPORE: A couple accused of murdering their five-year-old son in 2016 by inflicting months of abuse on him, until he finally collapsed after ...
, until he finally collapsed after having hot water poured on him, was acquitted on Friday of the capital charge and will face lesser charges.
His parents had other children and lived with some of them in a one-room rental flat, but the victim had been living with another family shortly after his birth in January 2011, returning to his parents' household only in May 2015. Before the boy died, his parents scalded him with hot water on a few occasions, leaving him limping in pain with blisters and peeling skin, the prosecution argued.
The boy crouched down in the toilet as Ridzuan purportedly poured hot water over his back and calf, and the boy fell forward onto the bathroom floor and stopped moving.
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