2 year old Toddler killed for grabbing dad's cigarettes
Pastor Dale Morgan
2 year old Toddler killed for grabbing dad's cigarettes*
From correspondents in Singapore
AAP
October 20, 2009 06:53pm
A SINGAPOREAN man has gone on trial charged with murdering his
23-month-old daughter in a fit of rage after he caught her playing with
his cigarettes, court officials said.
Sallehan Allaudin, 26, is accused of fatally beating his daughter Nikie
in January ahead of her second birthday, causing her to die of a
ruptured vein. If convicted, he could face death by hanging.
The High Court was told that Mr Sallehan, who had just returned home
with his wife with a present for Nikie, went berserk after seeing the
toddler had torn up and scattered his cigarettes, the Straits Times
reported.
Mr Sallehan has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
His wife, Rozanah Mohamed Yusoff, 24, used a mannequin to show the court
how Mr Sallehan allegedly kicked and stomped on their daughter in the
kitchen, the newspaper said.
The couple, who have two younger daughters, called for an ambulance when
Nikie started bleeding from the nose, but she died of her injuries,
according to the report.
"I did not go into the kitchen to stop my husband as I thought that was
the way he wanted to discipline Nikie," the wife was quoted as saying by
the newspaper.