Senior social worker Koh Wah Koon has handled numerous cases in her 26 years working at a student care centre here, but one case stood out for how a father had to take care of his seven-year-old daughter "like a dog".
The single father would cook all the meals in the morning and leave them at home for his daughter in Primary 1 before going to work.
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