Accused Of Slitting Her Son's Neck At Dawn, Middle-aged Mother In Cipayung Admits She Was Joking With The Victim While Cutting Lontong

Mother and child in Cipayung, East Jakarta who are accused of slitting their child's throat

JAKARTA – The housewife who was accused of stabbing her son's neck with a knife at dawn, ensures that he does not do as netizens suspect. Y (54), the woman's initials, explained that she and her child were making small jokes while cutting rice cake, when she accidentally hit her son's neck.

Y did not expect the incident to go viral on social media. And he regretted the video narration which said he had slit his son at dawn.

Y confirms that the entire video narration is not correct. Because, he accidentally stabbed the child's neck because he was cutting rice cake to eat sahur.

"I actually want to open sahur, I'm holding a knife because I want to cut rice cake, because we were close to him, we joked a little, finally he slipped away and hit here (around the neck), the knife was a small knife," Y told reporters at his home, Monday. April 18th.

The stab wound caused by the small knife caused the neck of MS, who is known to be still in grade 2 of the SMK, to bleed and cry hysterically.

Y, as a mother, also panicked because of her unintentional injury to MS. They left the house and asked their neighbors for help to be taken to the hospital.

In a state of panic, MS was about to be taken to the Hajj Dormitory Hospital, then a resident recorded a video and distributed it to social media with a hoax narration that the child was slashed by the mother when she woke up for sahur.

"I panicked too, the incident was unintentional. If the narration in the video, it's a lie, it's a hoax," he explained.

Y also denied that the wound suffered by his son was a slashing wound, because based on the results of the examination by a team of doctors at the Hajj Dormitory Hospital, the injuries suffered were only minor and did not require hospitalization.

For the viral incident that harmed his family. Y and MS have given information to the ranks of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Cipayung Police and the East Jakarta Metro Police Satreskrim.

They also made a statement that the incident was not an act of persecution as in the video narration, but purely by accident.

"The wound itself (around MS's neck) and the acne are still the size of a pimple. I myself am annoyed by the news that is buzzing on social media. We are very disadvantaged by the news in the video," he said.

Previously, it was reported that a video recording containing false news or hoaxes related to a child waking up sahur, his mother slashed him, had gone viral on the TikTok social media account.

The incident occurred on Jalan Sawo, Lubang Buaya, Cipayung District, East Jakarta, on Friday April 15, at around 03.30 WIB. The video began to go viral on Monday, April 18. Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the East Jakarta Metro Police AKBP Ahsanul Muqqafi explained that the information that the child was slashed by a viral parent was declared a hoax.

"It's a hoax," said AKBP Ahsanul Muqqafi to reporters, Monday, April 18.