Let me live like everyone else, says woman raised by Chinese teacher

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PETALING JAYA: A Muslim woman who was singlehandedly raised by a Chinese kindergarten teacher is ruing the fact she is being punished for her parents’ mistake, by being deprived of Malaysian citizenship.

Rohana Abdullah said this included being forced to drop out of school because she did not have proper documents, Harian Metro reported.

At one point, Rohana said she endured severe anxiety and even attempted suicide to escape her troubles.

The only thing that stopped her from taking her life was the effect it could have on her adoptive mother, Chee Hoi Lan, 83, a single woman who has brought her up as a Muslim.

Rohana, 22, was two months old when she was abandoned by her Indonesian mother, a domestic worker at the kindergarten where Chee worked. “My father, a Malaysian, disappeared when I was little,” she said.

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