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Crimes against children/minors

The Usual Place Podcast

Megan Khung abuse case: How can we fix the system that failed her?

Forum: Rename Child Protective Service to reinforce its enforcement role

6 months’ jail for woman who ill-treated 3 kindergarten children

The 35-year-old Singaporean woman pleaded guilty to two counts of ill-treating a child in July 2024.
The 35-year-old Singaporean woman pleaded guilty to two counts of ill-treating a child in July 2024.

Commentary

Child protection is tough. Those doing it need care, too

Caseloads are rising and social workers involved in child protection face burnouts at a time when there aren’t enough of them.
Caseloads are rising and social workers involved in child protection face burnouts at a time when there aren’t enough of them.

Forum: Young children in dysfunctional families face high risks

24 years’ jail for man who raped daughter after lover goaded him; woman given 22 years

The 54-year-old man was sentenced to 24 years’ jail, while his lover was sentenced to 22 years’ jail.
The 54-year-old man was sentenced to 24 years’ jail, while his lover was sentenced to 22 years’ jail.

After Megan Khung: Family, abuse and the reckoning around child safety

Four-year-old Megan Khung died in February 2020.
Four-year-old Megan Khung died in February 2020.

Forum: Time to relook ‘many helping hands’ approach and have a unified aid response

‘I don’t want to go back to that pretty house,’ Megan Khung told grandma months before she died

After Megan died on Feb 22, 2020, Madam Chua could not bear to put Megan’s pictures around her one-room rental flat and has given away most of the girl’s belongings.
After Megan died on Feb 22, 2020, Madam Chua could not bear to put Megan’s pictures around her one-room rental flat and has given away most of the girl’s belongings.

Woman becomes first to be given life sentence in France, after schoolgirl murder

A court sketch showing Dahbia Benkired during her trial over the rape and murder of a 12-year-old Parisian girl, on Oct 17.
A court sketch showing Dahbia Benkired during her trial over the rape and murder of a 12-year-old Parisian girl, on Oct 17.

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MDDI (P) 046/10/2025. Published by SPH Media Limited, Co. Regn. No.202120748H. Copyright © 2025 SPH Media Limited. All rights reserved.