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Death of Mohamad Daniel Mohamad Nasser

On 23 November 2015, after being severely assaulted by his mother and her boyfriend the day before, Mohamad Daniel Mohamad Nasser, who was a month short of his third birthday, died at his mother's rented flat in Telok Blangah Crescent. Daniel sustained about 41 external injuries caused by abuse. Investigations and sources revealed that the couple had often beaten the boy, told him to stand in the living room or kitchen for hours as punishment, and force-fed him dry chilli. This abuse lasted for a month or so before Daniel died from a head injury inflicted by the couple.

Daniel's biological mother, 41-year-old Zaidah (who goes by one name), and her 46-year-old boyfriend Zaini Jamari were arrested and put on trial in June 2016 for the fatal abuse of the boy. The couple were both found guilty of multiple counts of causing grievous hurt and child abuse, and a month later, Zaidah was handed a jail term of 11 years while Zaini was given ten years' imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane.

The brutality of the case brought shock to the whole of Singapore and led to calls for greater involvement from the community to prevent child abuse, and together with several other high-profile cases of abused vulnerable persons, the death of Daniel prompted the government to introduce harsher laws in 2018 to curb child abuse, which included the judges' discretion to enhance the punishment of offenders who commit crimes against vulnerable people (including the elderly, domestic maids and young children). Provided by Wikipedia