Singaporean parents jailed after 8-month-old son dies from severe abuse

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A Singaporean couple were sentenced to prison for repeatedly abusing their infant son, whose death at eight months led to charges including causing a child's death and child ill-treatment. Chloe Gan Ci Xuan received 15 years and three months, while Neo Jia Ming received 16 years.

A Singaporean couple who regularly abused their first child after he was born, resulting in his death at the age of eight months, were sentenced to jail on Wednesday. Chloe Gan Ci Xuan, 23, and Neo Jia Ming, 27, were sentenced respectively to 15 years and three months’ jail and 16 years’ jail for various charges over the death of their son, Trevor Neo Yu Hin. Gan pleaded guilty to three charges comprising causing the death of a child, ill-treating a child and permitting such ill-treatment. Neo...