Tampines mum who pushed autistic son out of the window jailed 5 years

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SINGAPORE – A Singaporean woman who was charged for pushing her autistic seven-year-old son out of the kitchen window of their Tampines flat in 2014 has been sentenced to five years’ jail.

The Straits Times reported that the 43-year-old woman pleaded guilty to a charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder for killing the younger of her two sons in September 2014.

The High Court heard that the woman, who has a history with the Institute of Mental Health since 2008, suffered a relapse of her depressive disorder then.

Her husband and older son had written letters pleading for leniency. A gag order on the name of the dead boy was made by a judge in September 2014 when the woman was charged.

The incident which took place at their home on the ninth floor of Block 815, Tampines Avenue 4 shocked their neighbours who heard a loud thud when the boy fell.

Wearing a yellow T-shirt and black shorts, he was found lying face down. Paramedics pronounced the boy dead at the scene.

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