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. - FMT