A maid in Singapore who cared for an 11-month-old baby was jailed for 20 months on Thursday for biting and pinching the boy.
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The injuries caused bite marks and bruising.
The woman, a 24-year-old Myanmar national, admitted that she did this because she was frustrated when the child would not sleep.
In her mitigation, she said that she was assigned to sleep with the baby, and was only able to go to bed after midnight every day. During the day, she would have to perform household chores without any rest, she added.
“I did not have enough sleep every day,” she told the court through a Burmese interpreter.
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However, District Judge Paul Chan said this did not lower the woman’s culpability or carry any mitigating weight on her sentence.