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When the cake stopped coming home, a son began to beat his mother. That’s the unsavoury recent reality of a Cuffe Parade slum resident in her 40s, who used to work in a nearby household that would send her back daily with leftovers that her impoverished family of four would devour.
By earning more than her husband and bringing home dinner, the mother of two had enjoyed temporary respite from his beating, which resumed soon after Covid kept her home for five months without pay last year. Things came to a head when her 17-year-old son hit her as she no longer got him cake. “Please don’t tell the cops,” she told volunteers who came to her doorstep recently to ask if she was in favour of a second lockdown.
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