36-year-old woman jailed for filming Megan Khung’s abuse and helping dispose of body
A woman who filmed the abuse of four-year-old Megan Khung and helped dispose of her body after she died has been sentenced to 13 years’ jail.
Nouvelle Chua Ruoshi, 36, was sentenced by the High Court on Friday (13 Nov), making her the third and final person jailed over Megan’s ill-treatment and death.
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Although Chua did not physically abuse the child, Justice S. Mohan said she was not a passive bystander.
The judge noted that Chua filmed Megan being humiliated on at least six occasions, including when the child was naked.
“This demonstrated extreme depravity on Ms Chua’s part,” he said.
Chua also ignored Megan when she was in pain after being fatally punched by her mother’s boyfriend. Instead, she joined the couple in taking drugs.
“Ms Chua chose complicity and her sadistic amusement over her conscience,” Justice Mohan said.
Chua pleaded guilty on 26 Oct to three charges. These include conspiring with Megan’s mother and her boyfriend to abuse the child, disposing of her corpse, and consuming methamphetamine.
Three other charges for conspiring to abuse Megan were taken into consideration during sentencing.
Woman filmed Megan being abused and humiliated
Megan suffered more than a year of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her mother, Foo Li Ping, and Foo’s boyfriend, Wong Shi Xiang.
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According to the Straits Times (ST), Chua frequently stayed over at the couple’s condominium unit with her daughter from July 2019. Megan was present during most of these visits.
She saw the injuries on the child but did not alert the authorities or seek medical help.
At times, Chua helped conceal the abuse by dressing Megan in long-sleeved shirts and trousers to cover her injuries.
She also occasionally participated in the emotional abuse and recorded incidents on her phone.
On one occasion, Chua told Foo to make Megan eat her mucus because the crying child was hungry.
Foo then blew her nose into a handkerchief and forced it into Megan’s mouth.
Chua also filmed Foo slapping Megan and placing a soiled diaper over her head after the child failed to tell her that it was full.
On another occasion, Chua was present when Wong forced Megan to eat food from a bin because the child had offered food to Chua’s daughter.
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The abuse intensified from Jan 2020.
Foo and Wong starved Megan to prevent her from defecating around the unit. They also forced her to remain naked at home to prevent her clothes from being stained by blood from her wounds.
The couple made Megan sleep in a planter box on the balcony, where she was exposed to the afternoon sun. She suffered heatstroke on one occasion.
Chua did not stop them from locking Megan inside the planter box and filmed her there.
Chua ignored Megan after fatal punch
Chua also knew about Megan’s worsening injuries but did not seek medical help for her.
On one occasion, Wong hit Megan so badly that her jaw became crooked.
Instead of taking the child to a doctor, Foo searched online for ways to fix a dislocated jaw. Wong tried pushing it back into place, but it remained crooked.
After midnight on 22 Feb 2020, Chua arrived at the couple’s unit.
Wong told her that he had hit Megan very badly. Chua saw the child lying on the bedroom floor and complaining that her stomach hurt.
However, the couple dismissed Megan’s complaints as attention-seeking.
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Chua then ignored the child and joined Foo and Wong in the living room to take drugs.
Several hours later, Chua told the couple that Megan was not moving.
Foo noticed vomit beside the child, which contained a clear membrane and black contents.
The trio tried to wake Megan and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on her, but she remained unresponsive.
They also attempted other methods to revive her, including using electrical wires and blowing drug smoke into her mouth through a tube.
All their attempts failed.
Foo eventually realised that her daughter was dead and sent a message in their WhatsApp group chat saying, “Megan is gone”.
Trio burned Megan’s body in metal barrel
Chua did not seek help after Megan’s death because she feared her own wrongdoing would be exposed.
Over the following months, Foo and Wong stayed in hotels and serviced apartments while discussing how to dispose of Megan’s body. Chua was aware of these discussions.
On 8 May 2020, Chua accompanied the couple to retrieve Megan’s body from the unit.
The trio then burned it in a custom-made metal barrel at a car workshop. Chua joined them in burning incense paper in the barrel.
Megan’s ashes were never recovered.
On 20 July 2020, Megan’s father, Khung Wei Nan, filed a police report expressing concern about her whereabouts and safety.
Khung, a businessman and content creator known as Simonboy, said he had last seen Megan and Foo in February 2017, before he was incarcerated for drug offences.
Foo, Wong and Chua were arrested on 24 July 2020.
Megan’s mother and boyfriend previously jailed
Foo was sentenced to 19 years’ jail in April 2025 for her role in the abuse.
Wong, who delivered the fatal punch, was sentenced to 30 years’ jail and 17 strokes of the cane. He also faced drug-related charges.
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Chua is the third and final person to be sentenced over Megan’s ill-treatment.
Review found lapses in handling of Megan’s case
Following Foo and Wong’s sentencing, the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) said it would conduct a further review of the responses of parties involved in handling the case.
A report released in Oct 2025 identified lapses at multiple points across the system.
These included a Child Protective Service (CPS) officer failing to log calls from Megan’s pre-school seeking help.
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Police officers also failed to follow procedures after Megan’s grandmother reported her missing on 17 Jan 2020.
A new MSF unit was subsequently set up to analyse data from law enforcement and other agencies to identify potential cases of child abuse earlier.
Also read: Mother who tortured & killed 4-year-old Megan Khung gets 19 years in jail, boyfriend gets 30 years
Mother who tortured & killed 4-year-old Megan Khung gets 19 years in jail, boyfriend gets 30 years
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