KOTA KINABALU: A childcare provider, who allegedly abused a four-year-old boy under her care, has been remanded until Aug 17.
Magistrate Stephanie Sherron Abbie issued the remand order this morning.
Kota Kinabalu district police chief, Assistant Commissioner Mohd Zaidi Abdullah, said the 27-year-old female suspect was arrested Wednesday night to assist in the child abuse case probe at a daycare centre in Luyang.
The case is being investigated under Section 31(1)(a) of the Child Act 2001. Under this section, it is an offence for anyone responsible for the care of a child to "abandon, neglect or expose the said child to danger so as to cause him/her physical or emotional injury".
"The police have received three reports. One is from the boy's mother. The other two reports are from the daycare centre owner, and the daycare provider (suspect) alleging that the child's father had assaulted them," he said.
The Luyang state assemblyman Phoong Jin Zhe, the Kota Kinabalu district deputy police chief Superintendent Kalsom Idris, along with officials and representatives from the Kota Kinabalu Social Welfare Department visited the daycare centre this morning.
It was reported that a 132-second video clip showed a four-year-old boy being kicked, slapped, and having his hair pulled by the childcare provider at a daycare centre in Luyang.
The CCTV footage showed the boy being repeatedly slapped and hit with a ruler on his face and head while he was about to eat.
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