{"id":455423,"date":"2024-05-21T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/05\/21\/man-in-singapore-treated-daughter-like-pet-confined-her-to-tiny-market-stall-for-a-year\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:51:00","slug":"man-in-singapore-treated-daughter-like-pet-confined-her-to-tiny-market-stall-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/05\/21\/man-in-singapore-treated-daughter-like-pet-confined-her-to-tiny-market-stall-for-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Man In Singapore &#8220;Treated Daughter Like Pet&#8221;, Confined Her To Tiny Market Stall For A Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Man In Singapore 'Treated Daughter Like Pet', Confined Her To Tiny Market Stall For A Year\" alt=\"Man In Singapore 'Treated Daughter Like Pet', Confined Her To Tiny Market Stall For A Year\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ndtvimg.com\/i\/2015-07\/police-car-generic_650x400_71437067190.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">The police are investigating the father for alleged child abuse. (Representative pic)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A 63-year-old man in Singapore is under investigation for allegedly confining his 15-year-old daughter to a tiny market stall for nearly a year. According to the <em>South China Morning Post (SCMP)<\/em>, the man, surnamed Tan, had been selling vegetables at a market on Circuit Road for a decade. He allegedly made his teen daughter live in one of the three stalls he rented at the wet market for 11 months. The 15-year-old was discovered when a neighbouring stall owner smelled excrement coming from Mr Tan&#8217;s stall and reported it to Singapore&#8217;s National Environment Agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The staff from the agency discovered the girl in April, <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/people-culture\/trending-china\/article\/3262764\/what-are-full-time-children-jobs-increasing-numbers-young-china-adults-prefer-house-chores-over?campaign=3262764_e0b6b144-1788-11ef-8958-a67e2b91bd79&amp;module=perpetual_scroll_1_RM&amp;pgtype=article\"><em>SCMP <\/em><\/a>reported. The 15-year-old had been living in the six-square-metre space. Crammed into the small area was a desk, fridge, fan and a makeshift dirty bed on the floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours said that the father-daughter duo, originally from Malaysia, had been living in the stall virtually day and night. They had never seen the girl go to school. The neighbours said that the 15-year-old did not leave the stall, even to wash or go to the toilet, and the gate was shut during the day as well as at night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read |\u00a0<a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/vietnam-teacher-sits-on-5-year-old-boy-hits-face-and-forces-him-to-eat-oranges-5714455\">Vietnam Teacher Sits On 5-Year-Old Boy, Hits Face And Forces Him To Eat Oranges<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Tan was protective of his daughter and never let her talk to other stall owners, they said. He also rejected offers to help. &#8220;He did not beat or abuse her, but treated her like a pet,&#8221; a neighbour said, per <em>SCMP<\/em>. The neighbours also said that the duo used to have a home, but was not known why they moved to the stall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Singapore&#8217;s National Environment Agency reported the case to the Ministry of Social and Family Development, following which the girl was sent to hospital for a check-up. Neighbours said they spotted Mr Tan a few times after his daughter was hospitalised. He reportedly told them he would be taking her back to Malaysia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The police are investigating the father for alleged child abuse. The probe is yet to reach a conclusion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Notably, under Singapore&#8217;s Children and Young Persons Act, ill-treatment of a child aged 16 or younger can result in a fine of up to USD 5,900 and a maximum jail term of eight years.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/man-in-singapore-treated-daughter-like-pet-confined-her-to-tiny-market-stall-for-a-year-5715168\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The police are investigating the father for alleged child abuse. (Representative pic) A 63-year-old man in Singapore is under investigation for allegedly confining his 15-year-old daughter to a tiny market stall for nearly a year. According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the man, surnamed Tan, had been selling vegetables at a market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":455424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[73942,528287,528288,528289,129,51032],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}