Law-enforcement agencies clamped down on an illegal child care facility that was being run by an Arab couple from their apartment in Al Sadd locality.

A Ministry of Interior statement said yesterday that Capital Police arrested the couple and referred them to prosecution for legal action.

An Arab woman from the country to which the couple belong, had lodged a complaint with Al Sadd police that her four-year-old child in the care of the nursery was beaten up.

She urged Al Sadd police, which falls under the jurisdiction of Capital Police, to contact the nursery and take a written undertaking from the owners that they would treat her child properly.

During investigation, police discovered that the couple was using the apartment they were living in with their children to run an illegal nursery.

Confronted, the man admitted that they had released advertisements in local newspapers to accept children for a monthly fee of QR500 per child. Many parents left their young in the couple's care. [Read more on The Peninsula]