Duo charged with abusing girl


Claiming trial: Hishamuddin and Katrina being brought to court to be charged.

JOHOR BARU: A single mother and her unemployed boyfriend have pleaded not guilty to two counts of abusing her three-year-old daughter.

Factory operator Katrina Kamilah Kamarudin, 29, and Hishamuddin Ismail, 31, were first brought to a Sessions Court here to face the charge of physically abusing the girl by hitting her with a stick.

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