AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD girl fell to her death from the 13th-floor kitchen window of a block of flats in Jurong West after she was left alone with her two young cousins, a coroner's court heard.

Nur Natasha Azman and her cousins, aged two and three, were then sleeping in their bedrooms when her maternal aunt, Madam Salimah Mohd Ali, 26, left the flat for the market at around 7.30am last Oct 12, the eve of Hari Raya Puasa.

Before leaving, Madam Salimah, a housewife, had closed the sliding kitchen windows and secured the main door as Natasha had previously opened the gate herself and walked out of the flat.

Madam Salimah also closed the sliding kitchen windows and grilles.

When she returned at about 8.20am, she found the kitchen window and grilles open, and realised Natasha had fallen out of the window.

The Primary 2 pupil at Pioneer Primary School had been living in her grandmother's Jurong West flat for the past three months.

Her parents were then separated and lived elsewhere. They have since divorced.

At a coroner's inquiry into her death, the court heard that Natasha, described as an active and cheerful girl, was in the habit of looking out of the unit from the bedroom window, which was locked and secured at all times.

On Thursday, State Coroner Victor Yeo recorded a verdict of misadventure on her death.