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An Indonesian domestic helper has been charged in Johor Baru Sessions Court with abusing her employer's one-year-old child. The case, which went viral online, raises concerns about child safety and domestic worker regulation.
Japanese authorities arrested a 35-year-old man in Mie Prefecture for confining his partner's five-year-old daughter inside a garbage can for approximately five minutes on May 12, describing the act as discipline.
A stepmother has been charged with murder following the death of a 4-year-old child in Johor Baru. Police reclassified the case after determining the child died from blunt force trauma injuries.