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MENTAL PROBLEMS ON THE RISE!!!!

IMH to better track outpatients
By Lee Hui Chieh
THE national mental health hospital is looking at how it can better track and care for its outpatients, especially those more prone to violence. The Institute of Mental Health (IMH) has set up a committee to study this, after a former patient allegedly torched Member of Parliament Seng Han Thong. Questions about how IMH's more than 30,000 outpatients are monitored surfaced after 70-year-old Ong Kah Chua, who has been in and out of the hospital with a history of paranoid delusion, allegedly set the MP for Yio Chu Kang on fire at a community event in January.

Girl stabbed, mum charged
MOTHER was charged in court yesterday with killing her 14-year-old daughter.
Goh Hai Eng, 51, is said to have stabbed Eunice Chew Li Xin in their flat in Block 852, Woodlands Street 83, early yesterday morning. The teenager was found dead in her room with a stab wound in her torso just after 3am, said police. Neighbours say that the one-room rented flat on the fifth floor was also home to Goh's other daughter, believed to be in her 20s to 30s, and that daughter's baby girl, who is about a year old. The family is believed to have lived there for about a year. A neighbour on the same floor, Madam Noor Asiah, 48, said she used to meet Eunice in the lift every morning when she was sending her young daughter off to school.
'She didn't say much, except 'morning',' said the sales consultant.
Eunice, who was in Peicai Secondary School, was described by her classmate Ng Chiaqi, 16, as well-liked, and rather guai, meaning 'obedient'. The dead girl, who was in the Normal (Technical) class, played the guzheng, a traditional Chinese musical instrument, as her co-curricular activity, and had wanted to join the school choir. Schools are now closed for a one-week break.

Woman neglected her child
By Elena Chong
A WOMAN left her two-year-old son in a pram at a taxi stand outside Tiong Bahru Plaza, a court heard on Friday. The 32-year-old housewife, originally charged with child abandonment, admitted to a reduced charge of wilfully neglecting the child in circumstances that were likely to endanger his safety on Sept 11 last year. Assistant Public Prosecutor Thiagesh Sukumaran said that a security officer at the shopping centre was alerted to the toddler left unattended in a baby pram at about 11.15am that day. Closed-circuit television footage showed the accused pushing the pram from Beo Crescent to the zebra crossing opposite Tiong Bahru Plaza.
The accused was seen kissing the child before walking towards Beo Crescent, leaving him alone and unattended in the pram. The accused showed up at a police station that evening and was arrested. Her lawyer, Mr Noor Marican, said his client left her child because of marital problems. She had no intention of permanently abandoning her child and did it to get the attention of her husband, he said. Mr Marican told the court that his client realised that what she had done was wrong and was undergoing counselling. He asked the court to call for a probation report so that the child's interests were also protected. Community Court judge May Mesenas called for a pre-sentence report on April 21. She also told the prosecution to check with the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports on the welfare of the child. The penalty for child neglect is a fine of up to $4,000 and/or a jail term of up to four years.