Welfare Dept To Care For Single Mum S 3 Children Till Court Hearing

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The three children will now be staying at Rumah Taman Sinar Harapan, a welfare department facility in Jitra, Kedah.GEORGE TOWN: The children of a divorcee, who were allegedly under the care of religious authorities in Perlis, have been placed with the welfare department (JKM), an NGO said.
Assistant chef Loh Siew Hong’s three children will now be staying at Rumah Taman Sinar Harapan, a JKM facility in Jitra, Kedah.
In a statement shared today by the Malaysian Tamilar Kural group that has been assisting her, Loh decided to let her children be under JKM’s care while she waits for her habeas corpus application filed at the Kuala Lumpur High Court yesterday to be heard on Feb 21
Earlier today, she was temporarily reunited with her children, but decided to hand them back to JKM, claiming that they were “clearly distressed and traumatised” by the ordeal.
Loh Siew Hong with Bagan Dalam assemblyman Satees Muniandy and Malaysian Tamilar Kural spokesman David Marshel (right) at the Kangar police headquarters today.“The Perlis welfare department has agreed to keep the children under their care until the habeas corpus application is heard next Monday.
“In the meantime, no other third party, including the religious authorities in Perlis, will have access to the children, other than their mother as their sole custodian,” the NGO said.
On Feb 12, FMT had reported that Loh filed a police report at the Seberang Perai Utara district police headquarters in Kepala Batas seeking the return of her 14-year-old twin daughters and son, 10, who were in Perlis.
The children were last known to be with her former husband’s family while she sought refuge at a women’s shelter for physical abuse.
Last year, she filed for divorce and was granted full custody of her children. Police, however, had failed to recover them even after the Kuala Lumpur High Court ordered them to do so.
Loh said she lodged police reports on her missing children in three different states last year but was given the runaround, with leads suggesting that her children had been converted. - FMT

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