A WOMAN lodged a report after claiming her elder brother, who suffers from schizophrenia, was treated inhumanely by the neighbourhood children in Kubur Panjang, Pendang, Kedah.<\/p>\n
Nor Zaihan Muhamad Yusof, 29, said her 40-year-old brother often becomes a victim of harassment, including the latest incident where several children were accused of urinating on him.<\/p>\n
She said her brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of six.<\/p>\n
“Society should be more sensitive and respectful towards individuals with mental illnesses and the families who care for them.<\/p>\n
“More disappointing, the perpetrators are underage children who behaved rudely in front of their own parents,” she told Sinar Harian.<\/p>\n
Nor Zaihan shared in Facebook that her family has been trying to take care of him as best they could.<\/p>\n
She said that their family also ensured the gate was always locked and the room windows are reinforced with safety grills.<\/p>\n
“However, the neighbour\u2019s children constantly laugh at my brother’s illness and made it a subject of mockery.<\/p>\n
“My brother has also complained about being pelted with stones, but we have no evidence.<\/p>\n
“Recently, I saw them throw firecrackers at my brother who was sitting in the garage,” she said.<\/p>\n
She added that the closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage also showed the children burning clothes hung on the fence and climbing into the compound though the gate was locked.<\/p>\n
“In the latest incident, my mother saw them urinating on my brother’s body, I consider it excessive, and that’s what spurred me to lodge a report at the Kubur Panjang Police Station on April 3,” she said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Pendang police chief, Rodzi Abu Hassan, when contacted by Sinar Harian, confirmed that his department received the report and investigations are ongoing. – April 9, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A WOMAN lodged a report after claiming her elder brother, who suffers from schizophrenia, was treated inhumanely by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[4767,105,4769,218,2963,4768,4766,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-7577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-brother","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-kedah","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-report","13":"tag-schizophrenia","14":"tag-sister","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114313160519548773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}