Foster mum loses to real mother

Happy outcome: (From right) Lee and her mother Sia being advised by lawyer Lim Aun Phung after the court decision.

GEORGE TOWN: A foster mum lost her appeal against a lower court’s decision to grant custody of a six-year-old girl to her biological mother.

High Court Judicial Commissioner Azmi Ariffin held that the well-being of the child, in the long run, should lie with her natural mother.