Some stepmothers are..........

Four children were beaten and shouted at constantly and forced to find food and medicinal herbs in the jungle.

The young siblings were starved, subject to physical abuse and forced into manual labour by their stepmother, who kept them with her for two years in Indonesia, refusing to let them return home to their father in Malaysia.

The nightmare for Nurul Safiza and her siblings Muhammad Nurhan, nine, and Nur Masyita Amiera, eight, ended last Saturday after they were taken home to Malaysia by their father, Mr Nordi Adi, 57, with the assistance of the Umno Youth Community Complaints Bureau

The family touched down at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport at about 12.15pm.

Said Mr Nordi: "We were unable to bring my eldest child home as she was in a different location from the other three."