Mum forces son to beg for money

Teen made to pretend to be deaf and mute

A MOTHER forced her 14-year-old son to pretend to be mute and deaf and beg for money in Bintulu, Oriental Daily reported.

The teenager would hold out a handwritten note saying his father had died in a car crash and he needed money to buy formula and diapers for his two-month-old sibling.

The note also said that he had five brothers and sisters.

Welfare Department officers on the case found out it was untrue. The teenager has an eight-year-old sister and divorced parents.

Both parties lodged police reports over the matter.

> Rick Wu, son of Taiwanese entertainer Jacky Wu, was fined NT$500,000 (RM66,690) for a bomb threat, China Press reported.

Rick, who goes by the stage name LucyPIE, posted on Instagram that he would “make a bomb and bomb Taipei City Hall” if his girlfriend did not recover from her sickness.

The Shilin district prosecutors office ruled that his charge of endangering public safety would be suspended for one year.

Jacky said the punishment was “the heaviest in history” and could be due to his fame.

> A ride-hailing driver in Wenzhou, China’s Zhejiang province, was nabbed for raping and murdering a passenger, Sin Chew reported.

A 20-year-old woman called for a ride on Didi to attend her friend’s birthday party.

Her friend then received two messages from her. In the first, she said she was a little scared because the driver was driving on a road with no other cars.

The second message read, “Help, rescue.” Her friend could not get through to her phone and called the police.

Police recovered the woman’s body 14 hours later and arrested the driver, who admitted he had raped the woman, murdered her and then discarded her body on a slope.