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He became irritated as he felt his eight-year-old stepson was staring at him while he was making a drink in the kitchen.
Asking the boy what he was looking at, he walked over, grabbed him by the neck and lifted the child off the ground.
The man, 28, then slammed the boy down into a pile of clothes nearby, leaving the child in tears.
For ill-treating the boy, he was yesterday jailed for four months. He cannot be named due to a gag order.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Regina Lim told District Judge Sarah Tan that at least four months in jail was warranted.
“(It was) only fortuitous that there was no physical injury,” she told the judge.
Before handing down the sentence, Judge Tan said an appropriate one had to be meted out to discourage like-minded individuals from committing similar offences.
The court heard that the man was at home with the boy, the boy’s mother and nine-year-old half-sister when the incident occurred on Dec 3 last year at 9.30am.
The boy’s mother had shouted at the man when she noticed him grabbing the boy’s neck. His half-sister, who also saw what happened, had screamed, DPP Lim said.
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