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Condominium management says new tenants were caught on CCTV harassing the guard for alleged failure to take care of the child

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The new tenants in a condominium were caught on CCTV harassing and verbally abusing a security guard after he allegedly failed to take care of their child.

PETALING JAYA:
Former deputy minister Hannah Yeoh has urged the police to act against the parents of a child who was left in the care of a security guard at a condominium in Sentul last week.

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Hannah Yeoh.

Yeoh, who was deputy women, family and community development minister in the Pakatan Harapan government, said police could invoke the Child Act 2001, which provides for a RM20,000 fine, a prison sentence of up to 10 years or both on anyone who has in his or her care a child who is neglected, abandoned or exposed in a manner likely to cause it physical or emotional injury.

In a viral Facebook post, the condominium’s management body said the new tenants were caught on CCTV harassing and verbally abusing a security guard after he allegedly failed to take care of their child, who was left at the desk where the guard was stationed.

“The police should investigate this,” Yeoh told FMT. “Parents should never leave children with strangers. Even with people they know, there needs to be supervision.”

She agreed that it was not the role of security guards to be looking after children.

In the Facebook post, the condominium’s management said childcare duties were not specified within the scope of duties in the security guard’s contract.

It alleged that one of the parents tried to physically harm the security guard. It said police had been notified of the incident.

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Khirudin Tajudin.

Selangor and Wilayah Industrial Security Society adviser Khirudin Tajudin commented that the facts of the case were not clear. “Nobody knows what actually happened,” he said.

He noted that the incident comes on the back of a case last December, in which a security guard at a condominium in Ipoh was attacked by a man unhappy that his son was not allowed to use the swimming pool, which was closed to the public at the time.

The guard died last August and his family has alleged that his death was a result of the assault in December. Police have since classified the case as murder.

Khirudin said such incidents highlighted the need for the government to pass a law to provide security guards better protection, pointing to the passage last month of Singapore’s Private Security Industry (Amendment) Bill, which increased penalties for those who harass, assault or hurt security guards in their line of duty.

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