SINGAPORE, Nov 13 — A woman who recorded four-year-old Megan Khung’s abuse and helped dispose of her body was sentenced to 13 years’ jail today, with the High Court rejecting suggestions that she was merely a bystander.
CNA reported that Justice S Mohan found Nouvelle Chua Ruoshi, 36, had enabled and participated in the abuse through her filming, continued presence and failure to intervene.
The judge said Megan had endured “wanton acts of cruelty” and that sentences must reflect society’s abhorrence of harm inflicted on vulnerable children.
Chua had pleaded guilty to an amalgamated charge of conspiring to commit child abuse, a charge of disposing of a corpse and another of drug consumption, with three further counts of conspiring to ill-treat Megan taken into consideration.
She was a friend of Megan’s mother, Foo Li Ping, 31, and Foo’s boyfriend, Wong Shi Xiang, 40, who were sentenced in April 2025 to 19 years’ jail and 30 years’ jail with 17 strokes of the cane respectively.
According to CNA’s account of Chua’s earlier plea hearing, she filmed several instances of abuse and dressed Megan in clothing that concealed her bruises and cane marks.
Despite seeing the child weaken as the abuse escalated, Chua did not seek help for her.
After Wong punched Megan in the stomach on February 21, 2020, Chua arrived at the flat after midnight and found the girl lying on the bedroom floor in pain.
CNA reported that Chua alerted the couple to Megan’s complaint but, after they dismissed it as attention-seeking, took drugs with them instead, before the child was found unresponsive several hours later.
At today’s sentencing, Justice Mohan acknowledged Chua’s stated wish to change and encouraged her to reflect on her actions during her imprisonment.
Separately, Singapore’s Ministry of Social and Family Development acknowledged in November 2025 that agencies had missed opportunities to detect Megan’s abuse which might have prevented her death.
