A 17-year-old girl pleaded guilty in January 2026 to voluntarily causing hurt with a dangerous weapon after slashing two school staff in Singapore [1, 2, 3, 4].
The incident occurred on April 28, 2025, at a secondary school where the school's operations manager confiscated the girl's phone after she arrived late. At about 12:20 p.m., the girl used a penknife to slash the manager's left arm [1, 2, 3, 4].
When the discipline master intervened, the girl also slashed him on the arm. Before attacking the staff, she had hurt herself with the penknife. Another school employee disarmed her and informed her that police had been called, but the girl left the school and went home, where she was later arrested [1, 2, 3, 4].
On May 14, 2026, the court ordered the girl to serve at least six months of reformative training. Bail was set at $10,000 Singapore dollars. Reformative training involves detention in a centre with a strict regimen that may include foot drills and counseling [1, 2, 3, 4].
The girl, whose identity is protected under the Children and Young Persons Act, is expected to begin her reformative training sentence on June 15, 2026 [1, 2, 3, 4].
