"Jail for man who slapped mentally impaired jobseeker, causing skull fracture
SINGAPORE: A man slapped a mentally impaired person seeking a job so hard that he fell to the ground and fractured his skull, later bleeding from his nose and vomiting.
Thomas Lee Zhixiong, 38, was sentenced to six months and four weeks' jail for this and other violent acts - one for slapping a coffee shop worker for burnt roast meat and another for kicking a motorcycle down.
He pleaded guilty to two charges of voluntarily causing hurt and another of mischief, with a fourth charge taken into consideration.
The offences occurred at a coffee shop at Block 279 Sengkang East, where Lee worked as a consultant for the group owning the shop.
He did paperwork and visited the coffee shops under the company to check on the operations.
The court heard that the most serious offence occurred on Jan 24, 2018, the day Lee's company had an opening ceremony for the coffee shop after
The victim, a 50-year-old man who had a head injury as a child, had previously done odd jobs for the stall tenants under the previous management. He suffered from developmental delay, mental impairment and scar epilepsy.
He followed Lee around that day, tugging on his shirt, asking for a job.
Lee turned around and gave the victim a hard slap, causing him to fall backwards and hit the ground with a loud sound, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Andrew Low.
Lee scolded the victim and walked away to smoke, while some coffee shop patrons rushed to help the fallen man and wanted to call an ambulance.
Lee told them not to, saying he would call the Institute of Mental Health to take the victim away, and said the latter was just acting.
He also told some of the staff to move the victim aside, so that he would not affect the business at the coffee shop.
Lee called the IMH hotline and then the police, saying: "One mental disorder person here causing trouble."
The victim's mother went to the coffee shop after hearing about the incident, and found her son too weak to stand, although he had regained consciousness.
She took her son home, where he bled from his nose, vomited and suffered from urinary incontinence.
He was later taken to hospital and spent 26 days in a ward before being transferred to a nursing home where he stays to date.
A report from the hospital showed that the victim became non-communicative after the incident, which fractured his skull and caused bleeding in his brain.
He now needs help for his daily activities, and has poor balance and safety awareness, with his condition unlikely to improve.
Defence lawyers Josephus Tan and Cory Wong of Invictus Law asked instead for three months' jail and a fine of S$2,300, saying that their client had a short temper and was abused as a child.
Mr Wong added that Lee's parents divorced when he was three years old, and he had to drop out of school and find work for himself at 13.
His family lives in a rental flat and he has three children, one of whom was born just two days ago."
This is unbelievable n yet i m sure there r people who behave in this violent manner as no consequences had come to them in the past!!
Obviously there r reasons 4 this 38-yr old father of 3 to behave in this violent manner like he came fr a not so good family n was abused by his fathet, etc.
Still, while the natural choice is to learn fr the abusive father m become abusive as one grows stronger n older when no intervention was initiated. At the same time, there were cases where the abused rejected the abuses n vowed never to repeat it on another human being!
So playing the "I m also a victim!" does not go well with me. I can understand the abusive behavior 4 the abused-when-young person. Yet, i disagreed with the reasons (or excuses) given 4 abusing the injured.
He should face the consequences of his brutal abuses of this particular victim n the other 2 persons abused!!
He should get serious counselling to exorcise his demon fr being an abused child many years ago to someone who can manage one's temper n keep it at "civilized n harmonious"!
After all, he is still a father for 3 kids when he completes his jail term! We can't let his children becomes orphan as one can never predict "how some abused may fight back so hard that the abuser got killed!
All the successes in the recovery fr the uncontrollable!!
SINGAPORE: A man slapped a mentally impaired person seeking a job so hard that he fell to the ground and fractured his skull, later bleeding from his nose and vomiting.
Thomas Lee Zhixiong, 38, was sentenced to six months and four weeks' jail for this and other violent acts - one for slapping a coffee shop worker for burnt roast meat and another for kicking a motorcycle down.
He pleaded guilty to two charges of voluntarily causing hurt and another of mischief, with a fourth charge taken into consideration.
The offences occurred at a coffee shop at Block 279 Sengkang East, where Lee worked as a consultant for the group owning the shop.
He did paperwork and visited the coffee shops under the company to check on the operations.
The court heard that the most serious offence occurred on Jan 24, 2018, the day Lee's company had an opening ceremony for the coffee shop after
The victim, a 50-year-old man who had a head injury as a child, had previously done odd jobs for the stall tenants under the previous management. He suffered from developmental delay, mental impairment and scar epilepsy.
He followed Lee around that day, tugging on his shirt, asking for a job.
Lee turned around and gave the victim a hard slap, causing him to fall backwards and hit the ground with a loud sound, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Andrew Low.
Lee scolded the victim and walked away to smoke, while some coffee shop patrons rushed to help the fallen man and wanted to call an ambulance.
Lee told them not to, saying he would call the Institute of Mental Health to take the victim away, and said the latter was just acting.
He also told some of the staff to move the victim aside, so that he would not affect the business at the coffee shop.
Lee called the IMH hotline and then the police, saying: "One mental disorder person here causing trouble."
The victim's mother went to the coffee shop after hearing about the incident, and found her son too weak to stand, although he had regained consciousness.
She took her son home, where he bled from his nose, vomited and suffered from urinary incontinence.
He was later taken to hospital and spent 26 days in a ward before being transferred to a nursing home where he stays to date.
A report from the hospital showed that the victim became non-communicative after the incident, which fractured his skull and caused bleeding in his brain.
He now needs help for his daily activities, and has poor balance and safety awareness, with his condition unlikely to improve.
Defence lawyers Josephus Tan and Cory Wong of Invictus Law asked instead for three months' jail and a fine of S$2,300, saying that their client had a short temper and was abused as a child.
Mr Wong added that Lee's parents divorced when he was three years old, and he had to drop out of school and find work for himself at 13.
His family lives in a rental flat and he has three children, one of whom was born just two days ago."
This is unbelievable n yet i m sure there r people who behave in this violent manner as no consequences had come to them in the past!!
Obviously there r reasons 4 this 38-yr old father of 3 to behave in this violent manner like he came fr a not so good family n was abused by his fathet, etc.
Still, while the natural choice is to learn fr the abusive father m become abusive as one grows stronger n older when no intervention was initiated. At the same time, there were cases where the abused rejected the abuses n vowed never to repeat it on another human being!
So playing the "I m also a victim!" does not go well with me. I can understand the abusive behavior 4 the abused-when-young person. Yet, i disagreed with the reasons (or excuses) given 4 abusing the injured.
He should face the consequences of his brutal abuses of this particular victim n the other 2 persons abused!!
He should get serious counselling to exorcise his demon fr being an abused child many years ago to someone who can manage one's temper n keep it at "civilized n harmonious"!
After all, he is still a father for 3 kids when he completes his jail term! We can't let his children becomes orphan as one can never predict "how some abused may fight back so hard that the abuser got killed!
All the successes in the recovery fr the uncontrollable!!
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