Mum admits having disposed of the corpse to conceal the birth
By
Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
Nurasyikin Mohamed Ismail (in black) admitted that she hid the body of her baby in the electrical riser outside her Jurong West flat. She was found to be suffering from a mild depression disorder at the time of the offence and is undergoing counselling and treatment. -- ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN
AN UNWED mother, who claimed that the baby boy she delivered was stillborn, hid the body in the storeroom of her flat in order to keep her pregnancy from her family.
A week later, the 23-year-old moved the body into the electrical riser compartment outside her Jurong West flat and taped the door shut.
The body remained there for two months until the strong stench caught the attention of a meter reader.
Yesterday, Nurasyikin Mohamed Ismail, who also has a 11/2-year-old daughter, stood in the dock and admitted to an amended charge of disposing the body of her baby with the intention of concealing the birth early this year.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Lin Yinbing said the meter reader alerted his colleague to the suspicious find on March6.
The two men from Singapore Power returned to the block and found Nurasyikin cleaning outside her home.
She denied knowledge of the taped door, saying that the riser had not been opened for a very long time. When one of the men proceeded to open the compartment, she tried to take the package but was prevented from doing so.
She admitted that the bag contained her dead baby and pleaded with them not to call the police.
DPP Lin said that when Nurasyikin found out she was pregnant last year, she did not tell any of her family members.
Her mother, stepfather and three step-siblings live with her in the Jurong West four-room flat.
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
