Policewoman’s care for disabled boy tugs at heartstrings

A POLICEWOMAN went above and beyond the call of duty when she tended to a disabled boy who had been taken to the Bentong police station after his mother was arrested, Kosmo! reported.

A man, known only as Mr Tan, had taken the six-year-old boy to the police station, claiming that the Welfare Department did not want to take him in.

Seeing that the boy was in a dishevelled condition, L/Kpl Siti Sarah Ariffin gave him a bath, then changed him into clean clothes and diapers brought by her colleague Kpl Ahmad Fathi Abdillah.

The boy had been wearing a day-old dirty diaper and had also accidentally urinated on the chairs near the police station’s service counter.

Bentong district police chief Supt Zaiham Mohd Kahar said the boy’s mother was arrested under Section 420 of the Penal Code and charged under Section 29(1) of the Minor Offences Act on Feb 9.

Section 420 covers cheating and dishonestly inducing the delivery of property, while Section 29(1) covers the fraudulent possession of property.

“As her family did not pay her bail, the boy’s mother was taken to Bentong Prison while awaiting case mention on March 14,” he told the daily.

Supt Zaiham added that Tan later agreed to take the boy back to his home before sending him to the Kuala Lumpur Welfare Department.

● The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies)