2007 05: Used-car dealer jailed 56 months for son’s death

The Star online. News. Courts. Saturday May 19, 2007

SHAH ALAM: A used-car dealer had a smile on his face when the High Court here sentenced him to 56 months in jail for causing the death of his one-year-old son.

Ng Sooi Chai, 41, clad in a dark blue shirt and dark coloured trousers, appeared calm after the sentence was passed.

He had pleaded guilty to an amended charge last week for culpable homicide not amounting to murder of Teo Yeo, the younger of his two children.

The offence carries the maximum sentence of 10 years' jail and a fine.

In delivering his judgment, Judicial Commissioner Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim said it was a tragic case and hoped Ng would repent.

Ng was first charged on May 13, 2005 in a magistrate’s court in Petaling Jaya with killing his son under Section 302 of the Penal Code, which carries the mandatory death sentence.

In the statement of facts, Ng had slapped his son and pulled both his ears for urinating in the house.

He caned the boy two days later for similar reason.

Later, on May 1, 2005, Ng’s wife Chew Chean Wah saw him giving CPR to their son, who was lying unconscious on a bed, at 2.30pm.

They took their son to the University Malaya Medical Centre later where bruises on Teo Yeo's body and bleeding on his brain were discovered, and he was admitted to the paediatric ward.
Chew lodged a police report following the incident.

Teo Yeo died two days later. The post-mortem result showed the baby had a serious head injury due to impact with a blunt object or surface.

Ng admitted he had hit his son with his hand and a cane because his son always urinated and defecated in the house.