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Singapore man gets 16 years in jail, 8 strokes for killing boy
Mar 28, 2011, 10:08 GMT
Singapore - Singapore's High Court on Monday sentenced a man to 16 years in jail and eight strokes of the cane for kicking to death a 6-year-old boy under his care, a news report said.
Mohammad Johan Rashid, 32, a friend of the victim's parents, pleaded guilty to culpable homicide, the online edition of Straits Times newspaper reported.
Prosecutors reduced the original murder charge because they determined that the killing was not premeditated.
Rashid had often looked after the boy and younger brother because the children's parents were serving a jail term for drug consumption, the report said.
In November 2009, he kicked and stomped on the victim - fracturing 10 ribs and lacerating a lung - to teach the boy a lesson for talking back to him, it said.
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