{
  "id": 14384258,
  "title": "Former e-hailing driver in JB gets eight years’ jail for making toddler to eat faeces",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/former-e-hailing-driver-in-jb-gets-eight-years-jail-for-making",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-14T06:30:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Malay Mail",
    "slug": "malay-mail-malaymail",
    "url": "https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2026/10/14/former-e-hailing-driver-in-jb-gets-eight-years-jail-for-making-toddler-to-eat-faeces/239068"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In Johor Bahru, a 32-year-old former e-hailing driver named Chan Wen Jie received an eight and a half year prison sentence for abusing a three-year-old child in 2022. Chan pleaded guilty to the alternative charge of child abuse, as detailed in Section 31(1)(a) of the Child Act 2001. The victim's father is Chan's second child. The court rejected the defense's assertion that the acts, filmed on closed-circuit television, were merely disciplinary measures. The judge, Abdul Fareed Abdul Gafoor, emphasized that the accused not only physically assaulted the toddler but also forced him to eat his own feces from a disposable diaper. Fareed deemed such actions as cruel and degrading, clearly not a form of discipline. If the accused was incapable of handling the child, he should have relinquished the child back to his father. The original charges against Chan included murdering the toddler, Lee See Jie, at a house in Taman Skudai Ria, Skudai, on October 2, 2022. However, the capital murder charge was later dropped, with the court clarifying that it did not consider the initial murder charge or the child's cause of death when deciding the sentence for the abuse offense.",
  "summary": "KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 14 —A former e-hailing driver was sentenced to eight years and six months’ imprisonment by...",
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        "outlet": "Malay Mail",
        "title": "Former e-hailing driver in JB gets eight years’ jail for making toddler eat faeces",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/former-e-hailing-driver-in-jb-gets-eight-years-jail-for-making-14389234",
        "published": "2026-10-14T06:30:27.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}