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SINGAPORE – Three days after her severely scalded five-year-old son died in hospital, a woman told police that she had no intention to kill the child.
“How am I able to kill a child? Just look at my small body,” Azlin Arujunah said in a statement that was read out in court on Thursday (Nov 14) in her ongoing trial for scalding the boy to death.
In another statement, she said: “I do not have the intention to pour the hot water on him if he did not show any attitude towards me”.
Azlin and her husband, Ridzuan Mega Abdul Rahman, both 27, are being tried for murder by common intention for inflicting severe scald injuries on the boy.
Each of them also faces several charges for other abusive acts, including confining the boy in a cage meant for the family’s pet cat, pinching him with a pair of pliers, and hitting him with a broom.
Between Oct 15 and Oct 22, 2016, the couple splashed hot water on him on at least four occasions, using water from a hot water dispenser in the kitchen.
Scientific tests show that the temperature of the water in the dispenser averaged 92.6 deg C.
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