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KUALA LUMPUR: Secretly-recorded video of a Singaporean man carrying out corporal punishment on his young daughter in public has gone viral on social media.
The 30-second video opens with a man pointing his finger and shouting at a long-haired girl who is kneeling before him, as a woman watches on. The faces of all three are digitally-blurred.
After screaming something unintelligible, the man delivers a hard slap across the girl’s right cheek, which knocks her sideways.
The man, believed to be the girl’s father, then walks away – but quickly returns to yell at the girl to maintain her kneeling position.
“Kneel down properly!” he barks.
The shouts are amplified, as the incident takes place in a basement parking lot of a large building.
The unidentified video-taker, who shared the video with the Singapore portal Stomp, revealed that the dramatic incident took place at the Tampines IKEA outlet at 9pm on Nov 5.
Horrified by the footage, a Singaporean netizen reported the matter to the Ministry of Social and Family Development as well as the police, who are now investigating the incident, Says reported.
The netizen also appealed to the anonymous video-taker to provide the uncensored version of the footage to the authorities to facilitate the probe.
“If this man can behave this way in public, there is no telling what he has done in public,” said the netizen in a Facebook post.