Update: The home has provided their side of the story to say the children were kept separate to prevent them from hurting others and themselves.

According to Malaysian website World Of Buzz (WOB), a welfare home in Batu Gajah, Perak has a horrible secret.

WOB reader Vivien told WOB that she was visiting her auntie at Rumah Kebajikan Kanak-kanak Cacat when she discovered disabled children in the home who "were locked in the cage like dogs without water without bed nothing."

She shared these photographs on her Facebook page:

She told WOB of the conditions of the cages -- no lighting, the place stank of a mixture of chlorox, urine, and faeces, and one shared toilet bowl. She also said that each cage is shared by two children.

She said that the welfare home looked after disabled women and children. She said her auntie was well taken care of with adequate provisions. The area where she discovered the children was usually locked and she had secretly taken photographs through a window.

She had lodged a complaint to UNICEF and received a call from the home thereafter, but the conversation "got heated" after the home realised that the photographs are in the media, according to WOB.

Photographs from Vivien's Facebook. H/T World of Buzz.

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