Bella was chubby when handed over to Siti Bainun, says witness


KUALA LUMPUR: A good friend of Rumah Bonda founder Siti Bainun Ahd Razali told the Sessions Court here on Thursday (March 31) that she only knew the teenage girl who suffered from Down Syndrome and known as Bella around July 2020, on the first day Bella was placed under Siti Bainun’s care.

An assistant manager of a company, Zurianty Sudin, 39, who served as a volunteer at Rumah Bonda between 2015 and 2019, described Bella as being chubby when she first met the girl on July 14, 2020.

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