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A stepmother in Johor Baru has been charged with murder following the death of a four-year-old child. Police reclassified the case from earlier findings after determining the child sustained fatal blunt trauma injuries.
A foreign woman has been charged in Johor Baru's Sessions Court with child neglect following an incident in which her son died and daughter was gravely injured after falling from a 12th-floor apartment in Tampoi earlier this month.
Two married couples in Johor Baru have been rearrested following fresh abuse reports from additional former domestic helpers, extending the scope of an ongoing investigation into mistreatment of household staff.