Six-year-old Muhammad Syawal was dozing in the female surgery ward of RSUD Dok II Jayapura hospital when Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Yohana Yembise visited him on Sunday.



Police rushed Syawal to the hospital on Tuesday after they picked him up at his parents' rented house following report from locals that an injured boy had been seen staggering around the house.



'Every time Syawal soiled his pants, Mother and Father promptly beat him,' the boy's half sister, Devi, 16, said at the hospital.



Syawal's physical condition has improved since he was admitted to the hospital.



The Jayapura Police have detained both Syawal's mother Deby Husein and step father Kurnia Jali.



Yohana Yembise said that she would find a relative to take care of Syawal but if there were none available the boy would be taken into the care of the state and placed in an orphanage.

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