Tin Pei Ling regularly visited wet market where girl lived in stall for 11 months, noticed nothing unusual
A 63-year-old man is assisting with investigations into ill-treatment of a child or young person by neglect under the Children and Young Persons Act, said the police.A Ministry of Social and Family Development spokesman said NEA reported the case to the ministry’s Child Protective Service on April 3.
Ms Tin said NEA informed her about this case in early April and she was shocked when she first heard about it. A 55-year-old stall owner who declined to be named said the father sold vegetables at one of the stalls he rented, and lives in the second stall with his daughter.The stall owner said since she opened her stall at the market in 2014, she noticed the girl and her father spending a lot of time at their stall, even after the market was closed for the day.
He said: “Even though she doesn’t speak, she always seems cheerful. At times, she would touch her stomach and gesture to me that she was hungry, so I would buy her food.