Single mum in Johor claims nanny abused her sons

ISKANDAR PUTERI: A single mother has alleged that her two children were abused by their nanny and she only found out after they were sent home for the first time since April.

The 30-year-old store assistant said she found injuries on her sons, aged six and 11 years old, and believed they were scalded by hot water and suffered cigarette burn marks to their bodies.

She said she only made the discovery last Thursday after the nanny sent the victims home via an e-hailing car. The children were living here with the nanny, who was paid a monthly fee of RM800, since April.

“After my husband died, I hired the nanny to look after the kids because of the demands of my job," she said, adding that she knew the nanny through acquaintances.

The woman said that due to her work, she had only seen the nanny three times since she put her children in her charge.

"In fact, I was banned from seeing my children. She kept giving me various excuses, including undergoing quarantine due to being a close contact of a Covid-19 patient," she told reporters.

Her employer, who heard about her predicament, then advised her to lodge a police report.

When the nanny learnt about this, she sent her children home through an e-hailing vehicle, she added.

"My son told me that they were beaten with canes and rubber pipes, and their bodies tied up and splashed with hot water or jabbed with lit cigaretts.

“This is cruel. I paid her to look after my kids yet she did this to them," she said.

The mother lodged the police report on the day her sons came home.

Iskandar Puteri OCPD Asst Comm Dzulkhairi Mukhtar confirmed receiving the report and said that three individuals aged from 22 to 32 years old had been detained to assist in investigations into the case.