Since 2012, four-year-old Mohammad Airyl Amirul Haziq bore the brunt of his mother's inhumane physical abuse.
She roughed him up as punishment for stumbling with his alphabets and reciting numbers — to the extent that he was repeatedly shoved and got his ribs stepped on. All her abuse came to an apex on August 2014, when she choked the toddler unconscious. He died four days later in hospital.
34-year-old Noraidah Mohd Yussof has since pleaded guilty to two counts each of causing grievous hurt and ill-treating a child, The Straits Times reports. She also admitted to six instances of physical abuse, all of which took place at her Eunos Flat.