Puchong:
“I feel very sad, hurt, and what hurts me the most is when some people compared my child to an animal.
“Maybe I am lacking in educating my child, but I beg you—if you want to criticise, criticise me and my husband, not my child, because he is still young. He doesn’t understand anything.”
That was the reaction of Sharmila Mawar, 33, from Taman Puchong Permai, here, in response to online backlash directed at her youngest child, Shakif Hakimi Noor Muhammad Hashim, 3, affectionately known as Akif, who drew attention after a video showing his antics as a chubby toddler went viral.
According to Sharmila, she never expected her child’s story to go viral after an individual shared a video featuring her son on social media.