Ten-year-old girl abused to death

A 10-year-old girl has suffered the same torment like her mother had, but she was not lucky enough to survive the torturing.

Shirley Deal, 38, fled from what she described as an abusive household several years ago, leaving behind her daughter with her ex-husband and his family.

Last Friday, she found out about the death of the girl, Ame Deal, in Phoenix of United States from an online news portal.

Girl abused by family friend for 7 years

FOR more than seven years, from when she was eight, a girl was sexually abused over and over by a temple medium whom her parents regarded as a close family friend.

He was a 'spiritual adviser' to the child's father, who was also a temple medium.


They trusted him so much that they let him sleep in their flat on many occasions, during which time he would abuse the child.

After the couple divorced, the girl's mother left her daughter alone with him and even let him have her stay in his flat during school holidays.

Yesterday, the man, now 59, admitted to multiple charges of sexually abusing the girl, now 16 years old, and was jailed for 24 years.

Married with four children aged 18 to 23, he will not be caned as he is above the age of 50.

Looking skinny and dishevelled in court, the former coffee shop assistant faced 44 charges for offences dating from January 2001 to May last year.

Because of the years of continual abuse, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Gordon Oh, the child had grown into a teenager who hated herself, mutilated her body and was promiscuous.

'That the victim's own mother would unwittingly send her own daughter into the lion's den was only possible because the accused had shamelessly betrayed the trust bestowed upon him by the victim's family,' said the prosecutor.

The High Court heard that the girl's father and the man got to know each other in 2000, when they were mediums in a Chinese temple and also did odd jobs for the same employer.
He became a close family friend - called 'uncle' by the victim and her three younger sisters - and was regularly invited to sleep over at the family's four-room flat.

In early 2001, while he was watching TV with the girl and her younger sister, he began stroking the younger girl's leg. When she moved away, he turned his attention to the victim, who responded by hugging him.


The touching became more frequent and one night, he took her into the study where he slept and raped her. No one heard her cries and he told her not to tell anyone about it.

He carried on raping her at her parents' flat.

After the couple divorced in 2004, the girl moved into a rented flat with her mother. But her rapist remained in her life when her mother let him babysit her while she worked.

Her three other sisters lived with their father.

By 2006, the rapist was having the teenager stay in his flat during the school holidays.
If she refused to go over when he summoned her, he would have her mother send her.

The abuse became more depraved. On one weekend in June 2006, he violated the then 13-year-old with a banana despite her protests. He then sodomised her and stopped only when she kicked him.

Then in February last year, he violated her with a stick used to strike a bell during prayers.

The abuse came to light a few months later, in July, when the girl confided in an aunt. It was only then that her parents learnt of her ordeal. They went with her the next day to make a police report.

Yesterday, the man pleaded for leniency, saying he was remorseful and in anguish every day. Citing his age and poor health, he asked for a 'reasonable sentence' so that he could spend the rest of his years peacefully with his family.

He pleaded guilty to five counts of rape, one count of committing an indecent act on a child, one count of sodomy and two counts of sexual assault of a minor. The rest of the charges were taken into consideration during sentencing.

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Girl abused daily for not calling mother 'mom'

A five-year-old girl, who was constantly abused by her mother, spent International Children's Day in a hospital in China.

She was sent to the Changshu Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Suzhou province last Thursday, after a neighbour informed the police.

The girl appeared motionless with blood all over her body.

Doctors said seven of her rib bones were fractured. The girl also had many lacerated wounds and scars all over her body.

Besides, doctors also believe that many other bones in her body had fractured before due to their abnormal shapes.

"She was also found to be suffering from malnutrition," said Dr Ni Daolei, adding that her condition was stable now.

What was most shocking was the identity of the person who had caused the injuries and the reason for the abuse.

Since Linlin was eight months old, she had been living with her grandmother because her working parents had no time to take care of her.

She has a nine-year-old sister and a brother, three.

Linlin returned to her parents' home in April last year, but she did not acknowledge her mother as 'mummy' since it was her granny who took care of her from the time she was a baby.

She refused to call her mother 'mummy' and this annoyed Wang Changxiu, who started beating the girl.

"She beat me everyday, with her hands, legs, sticks, hangers, bricks…," Linlin told reporters at her hospital bed on Wednesday.

But suddenly, the girl went quiet. Her expression turned scared as she gazed at the entrance of the intensive care unit.

Wang, who is seven months' pregnant, walked in around 2.30pm.

"She ignored me, refused to call me 'mother'. She doesn't love me. See, I have never beaten her sister and brother," the 41-year-old Wang said.

Asked about the injuries, she answered bluntly: "They were certainly inflicted by me, I don't care."

Wang punched her daughter and fractured her rib bones. She also cut her with a pair of scissors and hit her hands with bricks.

A neighbour, surnamed Zhu who lodged the police report said the girl was beaten daily.

"There was one time I saw the mother kicking Linlin until the girl landed outside the house.

"She crawled slowly to the door, then her mother stepped on her body several times. But Linlin dared not cry," he said, added the girl was given two meals a day.

"She ate a little bit in the morning, had no lunch and then ate the leftovers from the family at night," another neighbour said.

Wang was arrested but was given bail later.

A lawyer told the media that Wang has immunity because she is pregnant.

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