Accountant charged with leaving children without proper care, supervision

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A 39-year-old accountant pleaded not guilty at the Shah Alam Sessions Court on Thursday (July 3) to charges of leaving his two special needs children without proper care.  Thaha Abdul Latef entered a not guilty plea when the charges were read before Judge Norazlin Othman.   He is accused of leaving his biological children, one visually impaired and another with mild autism, without adequate supervision.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/muydc985  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00An accountant pleaded not guilty at the Shah Alam Sessions Court on Thursday to charges of leaving

00:05his two biological children, one who is visually impaired and the other with mild autism without

00:12reasonable supervision. Thirty-nine-year-old Taha Abdul Latif made the plea after the charges were

00:18read out before Judge Nurazlin Othman. On the first count, he was charged as the father of a

00:24ten-year-old boy who has mild autism to have left the child in a house in Elmina Valley, Shah Alam,

00:32on March 15, without making any arrangements for his proper care and supervision. He was also charged

00:38with committing a similar offence on his visually impaired twelve-year-old daughter at the same place

00:44and date. The charges were framed under Section 33, Subsection 1, Subsection A of the Child Act,

00:522001. He was allowed bail of 10,000 ringgit and ordered to report to a nearby police station

01:00once a month and surrender his passport to the court. His case has been fixed for mention on September 4.

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