Angry son nearly severs mother's ear

Angry son nearly severs mother's ear

JAKARTA (JP): Humiliated and angered by his mother's beatings,
a teenager took a kitchen knife and slashed his mother's left ear
until it nearly came off at their residence in the village of
Tambun, Bekasi.

Bekasi Police officer Second. Insp. Adri said the son, 17-year
old Bambang, was currently at large.

The injured woman, Rumai, 48, a mother of four children, was
mad with Bambang as he had failed to be promoted at school.

On Wednesday night, Rumai stripped her son of his clothes and
started to beat him for failing in his class. She kept on
screaming at him.

Bambang got angry, took a kitchen knife and struck his
mother's left ear, and right eyebrow, Adri said, quoting what
Rumai's husband, Zaenal, 49, had told police.

Bambang then took off. Rumai's another son, Deny Saputra,
returned home from college and found his mother bleeding
profusely, immediately took her to Medika Cibitung Hospital.

"We are still trying to find the boy", Adri added. (ylt)