Single mum seeks police action for return of her children
Loh Siew Hong, separated from her children three years ago, has filed a police report seeking their return.
GEORGE TOWN: A divorced mother has lodged a police report to seek the return of her three children, last known to be with her former husband’s family. She said she had been informed they were now in the care of religious authorities in Perlis.
The woman, Loh Siew Hong, 34, filed a police report today and told reporters she had later received a telephone call from a woman who said her twin daughters, aged 14, were in Perlis. She also has a son, aged 10.
Loh said the police in Kepala Batas had also advised her to go to Perlis.
“I want my children back. It has been three years since I was separated from them. So I plead to those having my children — hand them back to me,” she said, in tears.
Seberang Perai North police confirmed that reports were made but did not comment further. FMT has contacted Perlis religious affairs committee chairman Ruzaini Rais for comment.
Seberang Perai city councillor P David Marshel said a check with the national registration department showed that Loh’s children and ex-husband were listed as Hindus.
Loh said the children had been in the care of her former husband and his mother while she had been at a women’s shelter after suffering physical abuse at his hands.
She said she rebuilt her life and filed for divorce last year, winning full custody of the children. Loh said the High Court in Kuala Lumpur had ordered the police to recover her children, but to date, this has not been done.
Loh, from Sungai Petani, a former economy-rice seller, is now working as an assistant chef in Genting Highlands.
She said she had gone to claim her children after the divorce was finalised but her former mother-in-law claimed to be unaware of the children’s whereabouts. She said they could be with their father, who could not be contacted.
Loh said she lodged police reports on her missing children in three different states last year.
Last month, a woman had messaged her on Facebook and sent photos of the children but gave her a hard time when Loh asked whether she could claim her children, Loh told reporters.
She said two weeks ago, a man had claimed that her son was under his care at a tahfiz school in Tasek Gelugor, mainland Penang, and sent a photo of her son reading the Quran.
However, when she went to the school, she was told no such person lived there, Loh said.
She then sought the help of David and Bagan Dalam assemblyman Satees Muniandy, who helped her to lodge the police report today.
GEORGE TOWN: A divorced mother has lodged a police report to seek the return of her three children, last known to be with her former husband’s family. She said she had been informed they were now in the care of religious authorities in Perlis.
The woman, Loh Siew Hong, 34, filed a police report today and told reporters she had later received a telephone call from a woman who said her twin daughters, aged 14, were in Perlis. She also has a son, aged 10.
Loh said the police in Kepala Batas had also advised her to go to Perlis.
“I want my children back. It has been three years since I was separated from them. So I plead to those having my children — hand them back to me,” she said, in tears.
Seberang Perai North police confirmed that reports were made but did not comment further. FMT has contacted Perlis religious affairs committee chairman Ruzaini Rais for comment.
Seberang Perai city councillor P David Marshel said a check with the national registration department showed that Loh’s children and ex-husband were listed as Hindus.
Loh said the children had been in the care of her former husband and his mother while she had been at a women’s shelter after suffering physical abuse at his hands.
She said she rebuilt her life and filed for divorce last year, winning full custody of the children. Loh said the High Court in Kuala Lumpur had ordered the police to recover her children, but to date, this has not been done.
Loh, from Sungai Petani, a former economy-rice seller, is now working as an assistant chef in Genting Highlands.
She said she had gone to claim her children after the divorce was finalised but her former mother-in-law claimed to be unaware of the children’s whereabouts. She said they could be with their father, who could not be contacted.
Loh said she lodged police reports on her missing children in three different states last year.
Last month, a woman had messaged her on Facebook and sent photos of the children but gave her a hard time when Loh asked whether she could claim her children, Loh told reporters.
She said two weeks ago, a man had claimed that her son was under his care at a tahfiz school in Tasek Gelugor, mainland Penang, and sent a photo of her son reading the Quran.
However, when she went to the school, she was told no such person lived there, Loh said.
She then sought the help of David and Bagan Dalam assemblyman Satees Muniandy, who helped her to lodge the police report today.
PDRM took an oath to defend Bangsa dan Agama.... the Court Order may be seen as conflicting with their oath.
ReplyDeleteIt seems the malay/muslim establishment is quite happy to increase its number without any regard to whether such "conversions" are thought through by a rational and thinking person (not children) and uncoerced (if the children are indeed learning the quran and are in the custody of the muslim establishment).
ReplyDeleteGiven that this is Malaysia, it is very likely the children have been converted to islam and will, like the Indira's case, be untraceable.
The police will simply ignore the court order and nobody can do anything about it as evidenced by the Indira's case.
By doing so, if they hope to show the world their "fierce" defence of their religion, they should think again. People like me are not impressed. In fact I have less respect for the religion.