Stepmum claims starving girl left alone was possessed

Pitiful sight: A neighbour who did not want to be identified showing a photo she took before feeding the starving seven-year-old girl recently at the Taman Sungai Dua Utama flat in Sungai Dua, Butterworth.

BUTTERWORTH: The stepmother of a seven-year-old girl who was rescued weak, starving and bruised from a locked flat unit here on Thursday claims that the girl was possessed by evil spirits.

A neighbour, who wished to be known only as Kak Timah, said the woman made the claim to several people in the neighbourhood of the Sungai Dua Utama flats.