(from left) Neighbours Chen Mee Chin, 63, and Mr Ng speaking to The Star journalist Yuen Meikeng in front of the house at Taman Wahyu, Kuala Lumpur where five elderly and infirm folks were found abandoned.-- M. Azhar Arif/The Star 13 Jan 2014.
Some ex-volunteers of the society running the home had accused the president of using child labour as well as abusing inmates at an unregistered home run by the society.
“The children at this home were told to pack drinks for a well-known beverage company, make wires and sew buttons for baju Melayu,” a former volunteer complained to the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) in 2001.
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