Interview With Neighbour Who Took Viral Video Of Elderly Being Abused

For the last five months, he witnessed the abuse of a 58-year-old woman, allegedly at the hands of her husband and her daughter.

Living just next door to the woman, he had been hearing screams of “tolong, tolong” (Malay for help) coming from her flat at night.

For the last five months, the neighbour who wanted to be known only as Mr Singh secretly photographed the alleged abuse with his mobile phone camera.

On Tuesday evening, he showed the pictures to The New Paper.

The incriminating images show the woman being hit by her 25-year-old daughter with a broom and had her hair pulled by her husband, among other vile acts.

On Monday evening, another neighbour, Mr Mohammad Juani, uploaded on Facebook a video he had taken two weeks ago of the woman being slapped by her daughter while sweeping the corridor.

It sparked outrage among netizens, one of whom made a police report, and prompted the authorities to act.

Before anything, I would like to apologise if this video or my post may hurt or offend anyone. This video is definitely not something that any child or human being would want to see. Have you ever wonder how an abused woman is living in her own house? We have been seeing the changes in the old lady. From an old cheerful lady to a botak and fragile old lady whose face is bruised everytime single time we saw her. As much as we would want to render help, we are in no position to. (domestic affair) We have been witnessing alot of incident but just this one time, we decided to discreetly video-ed them. They were pretending to be talking nicely when my mum was along the corridor hanging the laundry. But the moment my mum stepped into our house…………this is just one of the things that happened. This is not the first time. Watch it. Such inhuman. The one who is slapping her is……………….her own daughter. How could you. She’s your own mum. She carried you in her womb. How could you gang up with others against your own mum? I know many others would comment on why are we not doing anything. However we are sharing this video with hope that many others would help us stop all this together. I hope all of you can share this video. #savethemakcik Blk 48 lower delta road 03-05

Posted by ApohTecky Numero on Monday, July 20, 2015

The police went to their flat that night and the woman, accompanied by her daughter, was taken to hospital.

The case has been classified as voluntarily causing hurt and investigations are ongoing.

Source: www.tnp.sg