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Alleged abusive mother says she received vouchers to stay at star hotels
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The foster mother claimed she worked as a supernatural healer and had received hotel vouchers from customers. (Shutterstock/File)
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he foster mother whose allegedly abusive approach to her five children while staying in star hotels said she could live in the hotels for 10 years as she had received many hotel vouchers from her clients.
The 60-year-old woman claimed she could heal people supernaturally, and many came to her for that service.
“I healed people, then they gave me hotel vouchers that I could not use [given the large amount the vouchers],” she said at the Jakarta Police headquarters on Thursday, as quoted by kompas.com.
She also claimed that the money she got from being a supernatural healer allowed her to take her adopted children to other places for vacation.
She was previously reported to the police by the Indonesian Child Protection Institute (LPAI) as it received reports about her abusive behavior toward her five adopted children — the oldest being 14 years old and the youngest 8.
In late February, the police apprehended the woman at the five-star Le Meridien Hotel in Central Jakarta. Over the past 10 years, the woman and her adopted children had lived in three different hotels, namely Le Meridien, Twin Plaza Hotel in Slipi, West Jakarta, and Menara Peninsula Hotel nearby.
Central Jakarta Police chief Sr. Comr. Roma Hutajulu said earlier the children were not sent to school.
The police arrested the mother in a hotel room after one of her children ran away to his former nanny. The child told his former nanny that he and his four adopted siblings had endured abusive parenting. (vny)
