No Child Should Be Injured By Parent Says Mp In Malacca Chair Throwing Case

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No child should be subjected to injury at the hands of their parent, said Bukit Bendera MP Syerleena Abdul Rashid. 
ADSResponding to an incident in Malacca on Thursday where a father reportedly threw a chair at his 11-year-old son, Syerleena said such an act was completely unjustifiable.
“Justifying such conduct because ‘the coffee wasn’t hot enough’ trivialises the serious issue of domestic violence and child abuse.
“It sends the wrong message to society - that harm within the home can be explained away,” she told Malaysiakini.
Bukit Bendera MP Syerleena Abdul Rashid“When a child is physically harmed, regardless of the reason, it is not discipline, it is violence.”
Coffee not hot enough
Online portal Malaysia Gazette yesterday reported Malacca Women, Family and Community Development state executive councillor Kalsom Noordin as saying that the child was alone at home with his father at the time of the incident, while his mother was at work.
“The father then asked the child to prepare hot black coffee, but when it wasn’t hot, the man became furious because his child insisted that the water had already been heated.
“Not believing and angered by the explanation, the man grabbed a chair and threw it, hitting the child on the head,” Kalsom said, adding that the man then cleaned his son’s wound.
The child, however, later told his mother about the incident after she returned home from work.
“The victim was then taken to a clinic in Cheng, but the doctor had to refer him to Malacca Hospital because the clinic did not have X-ray or CT scan facilities.
“A subsequent CT scan and X-ray conducted at the hospital found no serious injuries on the victim,” Kalsom was quoted as saying.
According to Malaysia Gazette, the incident was uncovered after the child’s school received a report of the incident.
The portal quoted sources who said it was understood that the chair-throwing incident was not the first time and the child had been hit by his father before, but did not sustain any serious injuries beyond bruises on his arms and legs. - Mkini

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