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SINGAPORE \u2013 A former early intervention teacher at a childcare centre was sentenced to 1\u00bd years\u2019 jail on June 22 after she used a pen to repeatedly stab the head<\/span><\/a> of a six-year-old boy with special needs for no apparent reason.<\/p>\n The 45-year-old woman had earlier pleaded guilty to ill-treating the boy, who sustained several wounds.<\/p>\n He was said to have been traumatised for weeks and became more needy.<\/p>\n The woman cannot be named owing to a gag order to protect the identity of the victim. Details about the childcare centre also cannot be disclosed due to the order.<\/p>\n In earlier proceedings, the court heard that the child has autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.<\/p>\n He could speak only one word at a time when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n The woman was his form teacher and the only adult in the classroom at around 3pm on Nov 16, 2022.<\/p>\n When she saw the boy walking towards a table where some stationery was kept, she picked up a pen, rushed towards him and stabbed his head several times with it.<\/p>\n The victim moved away from her, crouched with one knee on the ground, and fell backwards near a mat.<\/p>\n Despite this, the offender continued using the pen to stab his head.<\/p>\n She later walked away, leaving the boy on the mat.<\/p>\n Fearing the repercussions of her actions, the woman sent a photograph of his injuries to a group chat that included his parents and the principal, claiming the boy had used toys to hit himself.<\/p>\n The woman also called the victim\u2019s mother and repeated the\u00a0lie.<\/p>\n Refusing to believe the offender, the mother asked the principal to look into the matter.<\/p>\n The offence came to light after the principal viewed footage from a CCTV camera in the classroom.<\/p>\n On Nov 17, 2022, the principal\u00a0told the mother about the findings and alerted the police. The offender\u2019s employment was terminated that day.<\/p>\n The mother took her son to KK Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Hospital, where he was found to have three abrasions on his scalp and left eyebrow ridge.<\/p>\n He was given nine\u00a0days of medical leave. The victim still has a scar on his left forehead, the court heard.<\/p>\n According to his mother, the incident left him traumatised, and he often cried in the three weeks after the incident, especially at night, for no apparent reason.<\/p>\n He became more needy, and his parents had to spend more time to care for him.<\/p>\n His appetite was also\u00a0affected\u00a0for about two to three months.<\/p>\n On June 22, the offender was offered bail of $15,000. She is expected to begin serving her sentence on July 6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A former early intervention teacher at a childcare centre was sentenced to 1\u00bd years\u2019 jail on June 22 after she used a pen…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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