SINGAPORE, Nov 13 — A woman who recorded four-year-old Megan Khung’s abuse and helped dispose of her body was sentenced to 13 years’ jail today, with the High Court rejecting suggestions that she was merely a bystander.
CNA reported that Justice S Mohan found Nouvelle Chua Ruoshi, 36, had enabled and participated in the abuse through her filming, continued presence and failure to intervene.
The judge said Megan had endured “wanton acts of cruelty” and that sentences must reflect society’s abhorrence of harm inflicted on vulnerable children.
Chua had pleaded guilty to an amalgamated charge of conspiring to commit child abuse, a charge of disposing of a corpse and another of drug consumption, with three further counts of conspiring to ill-treat Megan taken into consideration.
