THE former teacher of a childcare centre who ill-treated a four-year-old boy under her charge was fined the maximum of $4,000 on Friday.

District Judge May Mesenas said that she decided against a jail sentence on Hasanah Ahmad, who could have been up to four years, in view of her lawyer Mr Pritam Singh Gill's leniency plea.

Mr Gill had told the court on Monday that his 25-year-old client was four months pregnant and suffering from depression and anxiety at the time of the incident in May last year.

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