KUALA LUMPUR, June 7 — A house in Taman Puchong Perdana, where a video of a woman beating a six-year-old girl with a back scratcher was filmed, has become a centre of attraction.
The double-storey house in a residential area was quiet and there was no one outside when Malay Mail visited late yesterday afternoon.
Cars passing by slowed down and their drivers and passengers looked up to see if anything was going on in the house.
Some took out their phones to snap pictures.
Neighbour Sasikala Murgan, 43, said the woman, believed to be the girl’s grandaunt, is known to be hot-tempered.
She said people in the neighbourhood were afraid of her as she was “very loud”.
Sasikala, a businesswoman, related an incident several months ago when the woman riled her neighbours after someone plucked pandan leaves in front of her house.
“The woman was so angry someone stole her pandan leaves and started screaming at everyone living nearby,” she said.
“She was cursing everyone with abusive words, and destroyed the entire plant so no one would steal anymore.”
Sasikala suggested the authorities send the woman for counselling and not punish her.
“She needs to go for anger management classes, otherwise she is a nice person,” she said.
The 170-second video, which has gone viral since Monday afternoon, shows the woman using a back scratcher to beat the six-year-old girl, and kicking and punching her.
Several who saw the video on social media asked if this was considered fair punishment after the child apparently spilt food on the floor during dinner.
The video, said to have been recorded by a friend of the woman, was later sent to neighbours who rushed to the victim’s aid at night.
People was seen gathering outside the woman’s house at 8.45pm, an hour after the video was uploaded on social media, on Monday.
Police later arrested the woman from the house. She has been remanded until Monday to facilitate investigations.
