Loh: My kids want to stay with me

Single mum’s love touches their hearts

GEORGE TOWN: Single mother Loh Siew Hong, who is in a custody battle for her children, says her three children have agreed to follow her.

“My children have wholeheartedly agreed to be with me when I met them. They told me that they love me and want to stay with me,” she said when contacted yesterday.

Loh, 34, who met them at a welfare home in Jitra yesterday, said the children could recall the joyous moments they spent with her.

“It only took a few moments for them to realise how much I love them,” said Loh, who is on her way to Kuala Lumpur for her habeas corpus hearing tomorrow.

She had earlier filed a habeas corpus application at the Kuala Lumpur High Court, asking the court to compel the return of her three children.

On her alleged absence for three years, Loh said she was never “missing” but was actively looking for her children and had made several police reports to locate their whereabouts.

“It would be most unkind to blame me as the allegations that I was missing were not true. I was given false leads several times in the course of finding them.

“There wasn’t a day that I sat without looking for my children,” she added.

Her twin daughters are 14 years old and her son is 10.

Loh said she lodged numerous police reports between 2017 and 2019 on injuries sustained allegedly by her ex-husband M. Nagahswaran.

She had been unable to see her children for three years after Nagahswaran allegedly took them away and later unilaterally converted them to Islam.

Nagahswaran was arrested for a drug-related offence and is now in jail in Kelantan.

The Perlis Religious Department had claimed that state laws allow unilateral conversions, although the Federal Court had ruled that both parents must consent to such conversions, in line with the Federal Constitution.

Loh, a Hindu Chinese, divorced her husband on March 19, 2019, and thereafter obtained sole custody of her children from the High Court.