A pregnant woman allegedly lost her unborn child after an assault. Years earlier, another pregnant woman linked to the same accused was allegedly assaulted so severely that she remains in a permanent vegetative state to this day.
The child she carried was later born while she lay unconscious, growing up in the shadow of violence that had already taken his mother long before he could know her.
Behind these headlines are shattered families, women whose lives will never return to what they once were, and children forced to carry trauma they never chose.
But while public attention remains understandably focused on the physical violence, this case also reveals something far less visible, yet deeply embedded within Malaysian society: financial abuse.
The recent case should horrify the nation not only because of the violence allegedly inflicted on multiple wives, but because...