'Home alone' girl may be put up for adoption
By FARIK ZOLKEPLI
farik@thestar.com.my
JOHOR BARU: The two-year-old “home alone” girl, who was left to fend for herself for 17 hours by her jobless parents, will be put up for adoption should the search for her closest relatives not yield any results.
“What they (biological parents) did was ruthless and despicable,” she said, referring to the incident where the little girl was abandoned by her parents while they went job-hunting.
The girl’s 37-year-old father and 23-year-old mother are serving time for abandoning the child at their home in Daiman Apartment here on April 17.
The parents, from Sarawak, had left the two-year-old inside a locked room with only a plate of rice and a little kitten from 5.30am until 10.30pm while they went job-hunting in Singapore.
***********************************************************This here is clearly another example of bad parenting.
Actually I know we did not get the full story here.
I would have liked to know why the parents thought that it was alright to leave a toddler by his or herself?
Was there no one who could have helped them babysit the child?
Don't they have any family members willing to help out? Any Neighbors? Any Friends?
Did the Parents think that it was easier to leave the child alone instead of with someone else?
Why? I'm sure they must have thought it out? So why? I need to understand why they did it.
I'm not here to judge but I wish to really understand why they did what they did. My heart is troubled that as Human we can be so careless? or are we getting so stupid? or are we so desperate to make such bad decisions?
