Rumah Bonda founder Siti Bainun Ahd Razali was today ordered by the Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur to enter her defence on charges of neglecting and abusing a 13-year-old Down syndrome girl known as Bella.

Judge Izralizam Sanusi made the order after finding that the prosecution had succeeded in establishing a prima facie case against Siti Bainun at the end of the prosecution case.

Siti Bainun (above), 30, had pleaded not guilty to the charges of neglecting and abusing the teenager to an extent that the girl suffered physical and emotional injuries...