Denials all round in saga of undocumented mainland Chinese boy in Hong Kong
Boy's mother surfaces and says she never promised to take him back
The plot has thickened again in the drama involving 12-year-old Siu Yau-wai's "voluntary repatriation" last week, with none of the parties involved admitting they said "family members" were waiting for him at the border.
Yau-wai's mother also came out to deny ever promising she had agreed to take the boy back, claiming she had abandoned him more than 10 years ago and it was "none of her business".
Grandmother Chow Siu-shuen told the Post on Saturday she was contacted by the Federation of Trade Unions on Thursday and told immigration officials had found the boy's parents.
She said an aide to unionist lawmaker Chan Yuen-han told her his parents would be waiting at the border and that she had to report to the Immigration Department by 3pm for voluntary repatriation or officials would take him away. Chow added that a car arranged by the FTU dumped them in the middle of nowhere in Shenzhen.
WATCH: Abandoned boy's grandmother tells the Post, she never said she wanted boy repatriated
Yau-wai's mother claims Chow is out of her mind. "She's mental. I asked her if she's [mentally] ill. If she is, she should see a doctor," she told Cable TV. "The kid was thrown away and she still wanted it, so what does it have to do with me? He's been abandoned for more than 10 years."