Four-year-old Megan Khung’s name has resurfaced in the headlines. And not because she finally got justice.
Her story, already one of Singapore’s most gut-wrenching cases of child abuse and neglect, has taken another emotional turn. On April 3, 2025, Megan’s abusers, her own mother, Foo Li Ping and her mother’s boyfriend, Wong Shi Xiang, were sentenced to 19 and 30 years in jail, respectively.
But the real story isn’t just in the sentencing. It’s in the aftermath. It’s in the hollow victory of punishment that still leaves a father grieving, a child gone without dignity, and a country wondering how we let this happen.
And it’s in the heartbreaking words of Megan’s father, local content creator Simonboy, whose raw post on Instagram cut deeper than any headline could.
‘Nothing Is Ever Enough’ – Simonboy’s Painful Truth
On the very day Megan’s abusers were sentenced, Simonboy shared a simple photo of his late daughter on Instagram and wrote that “nothing is ever enough to give [him] any good closure.”
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Let that sit with you for a moment.
Because when a parent is forced to grieve for a child they never got to protect, and who was failed at every level, by family, society, systems, no punishment could ever truly balance the scale.
It has been five years since Megan died in that Paya Lebar condominium. Five years since she endured months of being beaten, caned, humiliated, starved, and ultimately murdered. Five years since she was made to sleep on a hot balcony, forced to wear soiled diapers on her head, and eat food from the bin.
And now, five years later, Simonboy prepares to welcome a new child into the world. The contrast is haunting—one life beginning, another unjustly lost. For any parent, the timing is enough to break you.
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A Sentence But Not a Closure
For 13 agonising months, four-year-old Megan Khung endured unfathomable cruelty behind closed doors. On April 3, 2025, justice finally caught up with her abusers.
The Singapore High Court sentenced Megan’s mother, Foo Li Ping, to 19 years in jail, while her boyfriend, Wong Shi Xiang, received 30 years in jail and 17 strokes of the cane—bringing closure to one of Singapore’s most horrifying child abuse cases.
30 years, 17 strokes
You might think 30 years and 17 strokes is harsh. But if you’re a parent, think again. Think of your own child. Think of what justice should look like if someone did to them what Foo and Wong did to Megan.
Foo, Megan’s biological mother, didn’t just allow the abuse. She participated in it. She shaved her daughter’s head, withdrew her from school when teachers started asking questions, and inflicted pain when Wong wasn’t even around.
Megan’s mother Foo Li Ping and boyfriend Wong Shi Xiang
Her defense lawyers tried to argue that she was a victim too. That she was trapped in an abusive relationship. That she had an “adjustment disorder.” But the judge didn’t buy it. He called her actions “a gross abnegation of parental duties.”
And as parents, don’t we all know what that means? It means she chose herself over her child. It means she failed in the one job that mattered most.
Wong, high on methamphetamine, claimed his drug use somehow lessened his guilt. But the court saw through that too. His cruelty was not discipline.
It was destruction. Deliberate and prolonged.
He didn’t just punch Megan once. He and Foo tormented her for over a year. And when she finally died from that punch in the stomach in February 2020, they didn’t call the police. They didn’t mourn. They burned her body in a metal barrel after researching ways to destroy the evidence.
Let that sink in. Megan’s ashes were never even recovered.
Simonboy’s Grief is Every Parent’s Nightmare
The child’s death wasn’t reported. Foo and Wong left Megan Khung’s body to decompose for months inside the condominium unit at Suites@Guillemard. Eventually, they burned her remains in a self-constructed smoke barrel and scattered her ashes in the sea—erasing almost every trace of her short life.
Source: The Straits Times
The judge condemned this as “one of the worst cases” of corpse disposal in Singapore’s legal history.
So when Simonboy says there’s no closure, he’s speaking a universal truth. Because for every parent in Singapore, this is the nightmare you don’t want to imagine. A child, abused and silenced, while the very people entrusted with her care became her tormentors.
But Simonboy’s grief is also a message. A cry. A reminder.
He last saw Megan in February 2017, before he was incarcerated. He filed a missing persons report in July 2020 when he feared something was wrong. He followed the system. He trusted the process.
Yet nothing could bring Megan back.
And nothing can erase the fact that her suffering went unnoticed for 13 months while neighbors, visitors, even a so-called “friend,” Nouvelle Chua, stood by and did nothing. Chua, who regularly visited the apartment, recorded Megan’s humiliation on her phone. But she never helped.
The Ugly Truth We Need to Talk About
This isn’t just a sad story. It’s an indictment. On silence. On complacency. On systems that failed to intervene despite warning signs.
Megan was pulled out of preschool because teachers suspected something. But no follow-up happened. No welfare check. No door knocked.
This is what should worry you as a parent in Singapore. Are we truly watching out for our children. Their friends, their classmates, their neighbors? Or are we so afraid of “being kaypoh” that we let another Megan fall through the cracks?
Because let’s be honest. We live in a society that values privacy, where parenting is considered sacred and untouchable. But when a child is suffering behind closed doors, those doors need to be kicked open.
Why Megan Young’s Story Isn’t Over
You can’t undo what happened to Megan. And Simonboy will never get to walk her to school, hear her laugh again, or see her grow up.
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But what you can do is make sure her story doesn’t fade.
Her death is not just a headline. It’s a call to action. For all of us. As parents. As neighbours. As citizens.
Speak up when you see something. Check in on children who’ve suddenly vanished from school. Don’t ignore bruises, fear, silence. Be “kaypoh” if it means saving a life.
And let’s demand more. From our laws. From our social services. From each other.
Foo and Wong will spend years behind bars. But Megan’s justice must live beyond their prison sentence. It must live in how we protect every other child in this country.
A Final Word to You, Parent to Parent
As you hug your child tonight, think of Simonboy. Think of the apology he posted to his daughter on Instagram. Think of the guilt he will carry forever, no matter how unjustly placed it may be.
And think of Megan. The little girl who should’ve been safe, who should’ve had a future, who deserved love.
You don’t need to know her to cry for her. You just need to be a parent.
So let’s promise this: that Megan Khung will not be forgotten. That Simonboy’s pain will not be in vain. That the next time we see a child in distress, we’ll speak up, step in, and stand tall.
Because silence is not protection. And justice must be more than a sentence. It must be prevention.
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