Her boyfriend’s mother told The New Paper on Sunday at her five-room flat last night: “She’s hadmany boyfriends – more than 10 – some are ah pek (old men), someare young men.”

The 64-year-old housewife claimed: “Those men would come to the house to look  for her and I wouldn’t let them in. I didn’t ask her about them but she told me she  got to know them so that she could get money and (meal) treats from them,  and asked me not to misunderstand.”

It was an argument over the men that led to the woman leaving the flat  two months ago.

The elderly woman said in Mandarin: “That day, she shouted at the seven- year-old boy and said she had no time for him because one of the men had come looking for her. When my son heard that, they fought.”

The next day, she moved out with the baby. For the last two months, mother and son have been staying at a shelter for troubled women, her boyfriend’s mother said.

The woman, whom she described as long-haired, slim and pretty, would  sometimes not come home for days at a stretch.

Why didn’t the couple get married?

They couldn’t. Up to a year ago, the woman was still the wife of another man– her second husband.

“Their divorce was only finalised last year,” her boyfriend’s mother said.

Though the woman and her son were not legally wed, she still regarded the woman as a daughter- in-law.

“She called me por por (mother-in-law in Chinese),” she said.

What was her son’s relationship with the woman like?

“It was okay. She was good to him when he had money. But when he didn’t, it  was different,” she said. 

The woman’s mother had told Lianhe Wanbao that her daughter’s troubles began  when she married her first husband,who was 24, at 16.

He was a “decent” and “good man” who was devoted to her daughter, the  64-year-old hawker said. They had even applied for a four-room flat where they
planned to live after the wedding.

“But my daughter mixed with the wrong company and was too playful. After they registered their marriage, she had a change of heart and didn’t want to live with her husband,” she said.

Several months later, she ran away from home. Her husband pined for her for one year until he filed for a divorce.

She met her second husband when she was in her mid-20s. “But not long after they got married, he was sent to jail and he’s still there,” her mother said.

Her daughter then hooked up with her current boyfriend.

But their relationship recently turned rocky, she said.

The man had chased her daughter out of his parents’ flat, she claimed. Her daughter had also told her that the man had refused to acknowledge the younger
son as his child.

“He didn’t turn up when she gave birth at the hospital,” she said. “In the boy’s birth certificate, the father’s nameis left blank.”

But the man told Lianhe Wanbao he had never denied hewas the child’s father.

“I’ve never said I didn’t want the child. The child will forever be mine. I really love him,” he said.

He added that he did not know why his girlfriend hadleft the baby at the bus stop.

Asked why he did not sign the boy’s birth certificate, he said: “That’s a private  matter. Ask the boy’s mother. All I know is I’m his father.”

He had been to jail a few times, his elder brother told The New Paper on Sunday last night.

“He got into some fights and was also caught for housebreaking,” he said.

Seven years ago, he threatened to set the flat on fire after an argument with his  girlfriend. At that time, he even bought a can of petrol and was going to splash it
outside the flat.

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