Down Syndrome woman home alone and starving after mother dies in house


JOHOR BARU: A Down Syndrome woman was rescued from starvation after her elderly mother had died five days earlier in their house.

The woman’s 27-year-old brother had called out for his mother when he went to the house at about 11.10pm on Saturday.

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