Coming to help: Jin talking to Welfare Department officers outside his flat in Paya Terubong.
GEORGE TOWN: The eight-year-old boy who was stripped naked and chained to the stairway of his flat in Paya Terubong has been put under the state Welfare Department’s custody.
The department also sent the boy for a medical check-up to determine if he has been abused.
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