Singapore grandmother files police report after her 5 y/o granddaughter was allegedly hit twice by another girl

SINGAPORE: An irate woman claimed that her five-year-old granddaughter was kicked in the face two times by an older child, 8, while they were playing inside a bouncy castle at a café at Goodman Arts Centre on the evening of Oct 31.

The mother of the other child, however, insisted that it could not be determined that it was her daughter who hit the younger girl.

The 63-year-old woman, identified in a Shin Min Daily News report as Zheng Ping Mei (transliterated), filed a police report after the blows to her granddaughter’s face caused her nose to bleed.

While Mdm Zheng was having a meal with two friends, the two children with them played at the bouncy castle. After a while, however, her granddaughter ran to her in tears. The child said that another girl had kicked her, and her nose began to bleed.

She took the child back to the play area and asked her who had hit her. Her granddaughter identified an eight-year-old girl playing at the bouncy castle.

Mdm Zheng then approached the older child and asked where her parents were.

However, when she spoke to the girl’s mother, the woman allegedly grew defensive, telling Mdm Zheng that since she had not been in the play area and there was no video inside the bouncy castle, how would she know it was her daughter who had hit Mdm Zheng’s granddaughter?

Moreover, the mother even accused Mdm Zheng of scolding her daughter.

Mdm Zheng went on to inform the manager of the café and asked the mother and her child not to leave. However, they chose to do so.

The grandmother called the police, as well as an ambulance, so her granddaughter could be examined. After the child was brought to KK Women's and Children's Hospital, the doctor gave her one week’s sick leave.

When Shin Min Daily News reached out to the café, it confirmed that it was aware of what happened to Mdm Zheng’s granddaughter, and that the incident is being handled by the relevant authorities. 

The establishment said it takes matters involving children's safety and well-being very seriously. /TISG

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