Couple discharged by Sessions Court in child abuse case


JOHOR BARU: A married couple has been given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal by the Sessions Court here over a charge of abusing their four-year-old son to the extent of causing him physical injury.

The boy’s stepfather, S. Nagendran, and his mother, A. Sangeetha, both 23, were accused of committing the offence at Skudai Villa Apartment, Jalan Aman, Taman Skudai Baru, here at 12.30am on Friday (April 28).

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