GEORGE TOWN, Nov 9 — Penang police said an 11-year-old girl allegedly sexually abused by her father was placed in her paternal grandmother’s temporary care on Oct 16, the day he was arrested and remanded, and handed to her mother on Oct 21, three days before his remand ended.
Penang Chief Police Officer Datuk Dennis Lim Kwang Keng said the girl’s school principal lodged a report with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Southwest District Police Headquarters at 11.15 am on Oct 16, and the suspect was arrested at about 5.30 pm that day and remanded until Oct 24.
“The girl was referred to the One Stop Crisis Centre (OSCC) at Penang Hospital on Oct 17 and remained in the paediatric ward until Oct 21, when the Southwest District Social Welfare Department (JKM) handed her to her biological mother,” he said in a statement tonight.
