[Watch] Six-Month-Old Baby Allegedly Abused At Daycare: Mother Releases 14 CCTV Videos In Cry For Justice

The baby wasn’t just any child—he was her only child, born after four years of trying and four miscarriages.

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The grainy CCTV footage is difficult to watch: a caregiver appears to forcefully pull an infant from a cradle, the baby’s small body yanked downward, with patting that seems more like hitting.

Other clips allegedly show the six-month-old being wrapped roughly, thrown, rolled, stepped on, and slapped, with one particularly disturbing scene showing a caregiver using the same tissue to wipe the baby’s feces and then his face.

For Liyana Zulkifli, watching these videos of her six-month-old son was unbearable—”They treated my child like a toy doll,” she wrote on Threads after the alleged 15 December incident at a Desa Petaling daycare.

After filing a police report, Liyana released 14 CCTV videos across nine posts showing what she claims is systematic abuse, including wrapping the baby’s limbs, throwing, kicking, and slapping.

One suspect has been arrested, according to Cheras police.

He was her only child, born after four years of trying and four lost pregnancies.

“My heart is destroyed seeing my child treated like this,” she wrote, her posts carrying the weight of a mother who fought hard for this one precious life.

Though the posts were later deleted, they had already led to widespread outrage.

The Childcare Gap: When 4,016 Centres Must Serve Millions

Malaysia has 2.31 million children under the age of five, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) Children Statistics 2025 report.

As of August, there are 4,016 registered childcare centres under the Social Welfare Department in Malaysia, highlighting a shortage that leads many parents to seek alternative arrangements.

Even if each centre could accommodate 50 children at full capacity, the current supply can serve only about 200,000 children—a fraction of the estimated 700,000 to 900,000 who need care as both parents increasingly must work to survive.

The shortage creates impossible choices for parents.

With limited legal options, many turn to unregistered centres operating in regulatory grey areas or to arrangements lacking proper oversight.

The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry has identified around 1,080 unregistered childcare centres as of October—facilities operating outside the formal system, often because bureaucratic procedures and inconsistent local regulations make registration prohibitively difficult.

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The Cost of Scarcity: Eight Deaths, Thousands at Risk

Meanwhile, factors such as rising operational costs, staffing shortages, and strict compliance requirements are causing childcare centres to close.

Johor recorded the highest growth at 29.4 per cent in 2024, while Putrajaya saw a 21 per cent drop.

Between 2020 and 2024, eight children died at childcare centres due to neglect and negligence, while cases of children requiring care and protection increased by 12.7 per cent to 9,624 in 2024.

This is the context in which Liyana’s case occurred: a childcare system stretched beyond capacity, where desperate demand meets inadequate supply, forcing parents into situations where oversight is minimal, and abuse becomes possible.

When parents are forced to choose between unaffordable care and unregulated care, whose fault is it when children suffer?

When 4,016 centres must somehow serve millions, how can we be surprised when some operate in darkness?

The answer isn’t just prosecuting individual abusers—though that must happen—it’s building a system where parents don’t have to gamble with their children’s safety because legal alternatives don’t exist.

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