Singapore mum gets 10 years jail for killing son
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Sep 24, 2014 03:53 pm
Rebecca Loh, 32, was jailed 10 years in the High Court today after pleading guilty to killing her son, Gabriel, nine, on June 1 last year.
She had pushed him off their fifth storey kitchen window at Block 704 West Coast Road.
Loh was suffering from post-schizophrenic depression when she committed the offence.
She was jobless and worried about caring for her son, who was a special needs child.
Loh was convicted of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
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