00:00An accountant pleaded not guilty at the Shah Alam Sessions Court on Thursday to charges of leaving
00:05his two biological children, one who is visually impaired and the other with mild autism without
00:12reasonable supervision. Thirty-nine-year-old Taha Abdul Latif made the plea after the charges were
00:18read out before Judge Nurazlin Othman. On the first count, he was charged as the father of a
00:24ten-year-old boy who has mild autism to have left the child in a house in Elmina Valley, Shah Alam,
00:32on March 15, without making any arrangements for his proper care and supervision. He was also charged
00:38with committing a similar offence on his visually impaired twelve-year-old daughter at the same place
00:44and date. The charges were framed under Section 33, Subsection 1, Subsection A of the Child Act,
00:522001. He was allowed bail of 10,000 ringgit and ordered to report to a nearby police station
01:00once a month and surrender his passport to the court. His case has been fixed for mention on September 4.
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