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Toddler Off to Boarding School to Save Him From Smokes, Prostitutes
Nurfika Osman | May 20, 2010

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KellyManson
11:51am Jun 21, 2010

Thanks.

padt
11:49am May 29, 2010

I taught in a boarding school many years ago. Not exactly the place to send a kid to if you want to wean him off smoking and cursing. As for prostitution - well sex was free, although I do know some boys who kept a visitors book in the little 'love nest' they had made up in the roof of the school. Surprising the number of girls and boys who stupidly signed it. But then again, kids like to brag about these things.


mns_ent
11:59pm May 28, 2010

I think we have at least millions of cases like this around the country. Surely the government should monitor beyond Sandy's development.

JeanEvans
5:29pm May 28, 2010

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JeanEvans
5:28pm May 28, 2010

great post. thanks

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A 4-year-old boy in East Java who is said to have recovered from a habit of cursing and smoking after a month of therapy will be sent to an Islamic boarding school to prevent him falling back into his old habits.

Sandy, the toddler who was made infamous by a YouTube video showing him cursing and puffing away at a kreket cigarette, will not be returned to his home as the environment there has been deemed not conducive to his recovery.

“We need to put him in a proper place for children and we think that we have to separate him from his parents first,” Wahyu Hartomo, assistant to the deputy director for child protection at the State Ministry for Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection, told Jakarta Globe on Wednesday.

Wahyu said he did not know how long it would take to put Sandy into one of the Islamic boarding schools in Malang.

“It will be far from his parents’ home, but surely his parents can visit him anytime,” he said. “He is not ready to live in his home and a new place is urgently needed.”

He said even though the boy’s parents had also received counseling at Saiful Anwar General Hospital in Malang, together with their son, it did not mean they were ready to be responsible for him immediately.

“They need time and basically it is a hard job as the environment around them can influence all of them to return to their bad behavior,” Wahyu said of the slum the family was living in.

He said Sandy’s parents were only doing odd jobs for a living and were smokers. The slum where they live also has prostitutes operating there.

“The boy was introduced to prostitution places by his parents and neighbors when he was very young,” Wahyu said.

He said officials from the ministry and the local government would strictly monitor Sandy’s development .

“We are going to make regular visits and we will try as best we can to stop this bad behavior,” said pediatrician Mardhani Yoso Prawoto, who supervised the therapy sessions the family received at the hospital.