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Authorities said that a little girl keeps inflicting injuries on herself because she wants her mother to stay home with her and not go to work, according to hospital officials in Malaysia.
The nine-year-old, who is afraid that her mother will one day never come home, is injuring herself since her father disappeared from her home three years ago, the local police department said in a statement.
Recently, she tried to attack her caregivers at the after school daycare center in Teluk, Intan, where she and her younger brother are sent while the mother goes to work.
The police also said that the girl, from a broken home, had been taken care of by different people in her short life, and was an insecure child.
The person in charge of the day care center said he will not give up on the girl, and would do everything possible to help her regain her confidence and self-esteem.
Her 28-year-old mother said she would do everything possible for her children.
“The situation is extremely sad. Hopefully, if enough people learn of the plight of this little girl, enough money could be raised so that the mother will not have to go to work, so she can be able to take her of her insecure child,” Wilma Garza, 31, of Wilmington, North Carolina told YourJewishNews.com after learning about the little insecure girl who injures herself.