No more pain as little fighter dies with a smile

TNP PHOTOS: Kelvin Chng

IN DESPERATION, mum Cynthia Lim begged the heavens to take her child.

She wrote in a blog post: "Heavens, please have mercy on my child. Please. I don't want her to suffer any more... Free her and let her be the happy girl she has always been..."

The post was spurred by the discovery of yet another new tumour inside Charmaine's cheek.

Hours after the post, in the early hours of yesterday, little Charmaine finally gave up her two-year-battle with advanced neuroblastoma.

She was six years old.

In 2009, The New Paper wrote about how she, her brother Jase and their divorcee mother were desperately trying to raise money to go to New York for treatment.