Nancy said she had instructed officers from the child development department to lodge a report with the police immediately, adding that her ministry was ready to cooperate with Johor’s sexual, women and child investigation division.

“This behaviour is not acceptable and shouldn’t be normalised.

“Sharing pictures or videos of a child without the parent’s permission is a violation of the child’s rights and privacy under the Child Act 2001,” she said in a post on X.

In some of the videos, the young school bus driver with more than 640,000 followers on TikTok would call the children his “crush” or “beloved” in the captions of the videos.

He would record the videos while driving the school bus, with the faces of students clearly visible. His videos have about 10.5 million likes in total so far.