QuickCheck: Was a boy nearly kidnapped from a mall in Sabah?

Penampang Police Chief Supt Sammy Newton

IN A VIRAL social media post making the rounds since Thursday (Dec 7), a woman claimed that her seven-year-old nephew was almost kidnapped at a mall in Sabah's Penampang district on Wednesday (Dec 6).

In the post, she says her sister was shopping with her children when a middle-aged man, accompanied by a blonde woman, suddenly grabbed the boy's hand.