Mum and stepdad plead guilty to child abuse


JOHOR BARU: A woman and her husband pleaded guilty to abusing her four-year-old son, who died of the injuries.

The boy’s stepfather, S. Nagendran, 23, and his mother A. Sangeetha, 23, pleaded guilty at the Sessions Court here to a charge of abusing the boy to the extent of causing him physical injury last Friday.

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