Couple Abused 4-Year-Old For Over a Year, Burned Girl's Body After She Died

Girl's Mum and Her Boyfriend Plead Guilty to Charges Including Abuse, Culpable Homicide

- Selina Lum

Megan Khung was four years old when she died after suffering more than a year of humiliating physical and emotional abuse inflicted by her mother and the woman's boyfriend.

Besides being caned and slapped, she was forced by her unemployed mother, Foo Li Ping, 29, to wear her soiled diaper over her head.

Megan was also forced by Foo's boyfriend, Wong Shi Xiang, 38, a freelance mechanic, to eat food from the dustbin.

The girl was starved, deprived of clothing and made to sleep in a planter box at the balcony of the condominium where they were living, regardless of weather conditions.

A friend of the couple, Nouvelle Chua Ruoshi, 35, abused drugs with them at Suites @ Guillemard, a condo in Paya Lebar where Foo and Wong had rented a unit.

Chua did nothing to stop the abuse and recorded some of the incidents on her mobile phone.

On Feb 21, 2020, Wong fatally punched Megan in the stomach at the condo.

Over the next four months, the trio stayed in hotels and serviced apartments as Foo and Wong discussed how to dispose of Megan's body, which remained at the condo.

They researched ways to incinerate a corpse and experimented with different designs of barrels in which they could burn a body.

On May 8, 2020, Megan's body was burned in a metal barrel Wong had specifically commissioned.

On July 20 that year, Megan's father, Mr Khung Wei Nan, 37, a businessman and content creator known as simonboy, made a police report, saying he was concerned about her whereabouts and safety.

He said he last saw her in February 2017, after which he was incarcerated.

Mr Khung has previously been reported as serving a three-year sentence at a drug rehabilitation centre.

The police arrested Foo, Wong and Chua on July 24, 2020, in connection with Megan's disappearance.

All three were charged in court in relation to Megan's death.