News from IGP that no one will be charged with murder over the death of religious school student Mohamad Taqif Amin Mohd Ghaddafi has sent shockwaves through the country.
The boy, who died after a severe beating from his religious school’s assistant warden, a convicted criminal, broke hearts. His final images, of blackened legs and arms, on his tiny body haunted netizens who watched before their very eyes a young, innocent boy die from blood poisoning.
According to toxicology reports, the boy died of leptospirosis, more commonly referred to as rat urine disease. It spreads to humans when they come into contact with contaminated water or soil. Sufferers die painful deaths suffering bleeding from lungs, liver damage, and kidney failure.
Taqif, whose image will forever be etched in our minds, of limbs slowly dying, being amputated, was not an obvious candidate for leptospirosis. At the time, doctors gave him the blanket diagnosis of blood poisoning; however, his visceral bruises from sadistic abuse at the hands of the assistant warden were obvious.
It is the understatement of the year to say that the country is not buying the “no charges” verdict. The young boy’s mother, Felda Wani Ahmad counts herself as one of the doubters.
She tells The Star that she did not even receive an official cause of death from the Health Ministry, and only found out when reporters rang her.
And there you have it in a nutshell, all hands washed of responsibility, a system of abuse unchecked, and a mother left to find out how her son supposedly died via a newspaper.
