‘I never left Zayn Rayyan alone,’ says mother

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The mother of the late Zayn Rayyan Abdul Matin told the Sessions Court in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday (July 22) that she never left her child alone, except during working hours and school sessions.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/2v2std8w  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The mother of the late Zayn Ryan Abdul-Matin told the Petaling Jaya Sessions Court on Tuesday

00:07that she never left her child alone, except during working hours and school sessions.

00:13Ismaneera Abdul-Manaf, the first defence witness during the examination-in-chief by her lawyer,

00:19Haresh Mahadevan, on the second day of the defence proceedings in the child neglect case

00:24involving her autistic son, firmly denied that she neglected Zayn Ryan, as alleged in the charge

00:30brought against her. The 30-year-old said she was not at Block R of the Edaman apartments in

00:38Damansara Damai the entire time, and never went near the river area as alleged. She stressed that

00:44she genuinely lost her child on that day, December 5, 2023, and it was not a case of neglect.

00:51Ismaneera also claimed that she was forced to confess to killing her son while in remand custody.

00:58According to her, she had given full cooperation throughout the 13 days of investigation,

01:03but claimed that the police were not satisfied with her statements.

01:07She added that the investigation was conducted at a bungalow, referred to as a safe house,

01:13located in Petaling Jaya. On Monday, Judge Dr. Shahleiza Warno ordered Ismaneera

01:19to enter her defence after the prosecution successfully established a prima facie case

01:25against her. Her husband, Zaim Ikhwan Zahari, was discharged and acquitted of the same charge.

01:32The offence falls under Section 31, Subsection 1A of the Child Act 2001, read together with Section

01:3934 of the Penal Code, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years' imprisonment,

01:45a fine of up to 50,000 ringgit or both upon conviction.

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