Toddler found dead in Simei flat: 4-year-old brother pleaded with neighbour to 'please drive faster'
Catherine Robert The New Paper May 10, 2016
It was Mother's Day but for the mum of a one-year-old girl, Sunday will forever be etched in her memory as her worst nightmare come true.
Richelle Teo, who had celebrated her first birthday five days earlier, was found unconscious in her home at Block 225, Simei Street 4.
There were reportedly bruise marks on her neck.
What followed was a manic scramble by her parents to try to save her. Tragically, it was all in vain.
Richelle was pronounced dead on arrival at Changi General Hospital (CGH).
A woman who lives directly above the Teos' sixth-storey unit told The New Paper that she and her husband were at the open-air carpark at the foot of the block when they saw the family running towards them.
Mrs Teo, who was carrying Richelle, was with her husband, their four-year-old son and an elderly woman.
The neighbour, who declined to be named, said she and her husband did not know the Teos but recognised them as their neighbours.
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