A 31-year-old man was charged on Friday with repeatedly abusing a baby he was looking after by choking him, stepping on his face, pushing his head into a pail of water and hanging him on a hanger in a cupboard.
Advertisement
The Singaporean man cannot be named due to a gag order on his identity and the victim’s, but the case was classified as a domestic violence case. Their relationship was not specified.
He was given about 30 charges of child abuse, mostly at a flat in July and August 2024 when the baby was between nine and 11 months old.
While there was no indication of how it came to light, the latest charge was in September 2024 at a void deck instead of the flat, a public place where bystanders may have seen it.
A void deck is an open space located on the ground floor of public housing flats in Singapore.
Advertisement
It was unclear at this early charging stage what happened to the baby.