SINGAPORE: A teenage girl on Wednesday pleaded
guilty to three attempts of suicide.
Seven other similar charges were taken into
consideration.
The court heard 18-year-old Kathleen Seah Pei Yi
tried to kill herself on 10 occasions - from overdosing on Panadol
tablets, to swallowing broken mirror pieces and even inhaling gas
fumes.
The district judge has ordered a probation and pre-sentence
report.
Seah, who is unemployed, has been diagnosed with mild mental
retardation.
She tried to take her life several times between September 2011 and
May 2012.
On August 2011, Seah ingested 20 "Panadol Extra" tablets before
meeting her friend at Bishan library.
She was later sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital after she said she was
not feeling well.
One month later, Seah was found sitting on a ledge on the third
floor of a flat at Kim Keat Avenue.
She repeated the act on another occasion within the same
month.
She was then stopped by her father, a truck driver.
Seah, who has since been remanded at the Institute of Mental
Health, told the court that she would not do it again.
She will be sentenced on 8 August.
Her father, who turned up in court, told Channel NewsAsia that he
had been unable to deal with his daughter for some time.
In Singapore, a person who attempts to commit suicide can be
imprisoned for up to one year, fined or both.
- CNA/ck