The Star online. News. Nation. Wednesday April 18, 2007
By RASHITHA A. HAMID
KUALA LUMPUR: An 11-year-old girl, said to be suffering from severe depression, is in serious condition after jumping from her school building in Cheras.
The Year Five pupil of SK (C) Taman Connaught 1 broke her legs and sustained head and body injuries after jumping from the first floor of the school building on Monday.
She has been warded at the intensive care unit of HUKM.
Her father, who only wanted to be identified as Chong, 40, said his 20-year-old daughter had gone to the school at 3pm to pick up the girl for tuition.
He said the younger girl ran towards the school building and jumped from the first floor upon seeing her eldest sister.
He claimed that the girl, the second youngest among four siblings, had been depressed since his wife gave birth to their youngest child, a boy, two years ago.
Chong said his daughter had not attended school for the first three months this year due to severe depression and was on medication.
Cheras OCPD Asst Comm Rusli Ahmad said police had received a report and were investigating it.
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- Shelter (Advocacy & Awareness)
- is the natural extension of Shelter Home for Children's (a registered welfare organisation which was started in 1981) mission to aid abused, abandoned or neglected children through our homes and services. As such, Shelter (Advocacy & Awareness) was started in April 2007 to be a stronger voice for children in Malaysia who have been abused or violated.
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Daniel Schorr of CBS News says, "All news is an exaggeration of life." But, life should not be a casual dismissal and forgetting of the many instances of abuse and violation of our children.
Shelter News Tracker is then an attempt to record and track the many reports and court cases of abuse that is reported daily in our Malaysian online newspapers. In this way, Shelter (Advocacy & Awareness) hopes to be a voice and a record for the innocents in our society.
After all, a Chinese proverb says, "Good news about someone never gets past the door, but bad news will travel a thousand leagues away."
(Please note that the editorials, letters and opinions selected from the online newspapers and posted here do not necessarily reflect the views of Shelter.)
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The Shelter News Tracker basically functions as a news tracker on online newspaper reports on abuse and violence on children solely as a platform for discussion and action.
As such, no commentary is written in the blog with regards to the reports.
Comments/feedback posted by readers of the blog are very welcome. However, please be advised that these comments will be moderated to protect the sensitivities of the purpose of this blog.
Inclusion of these comments also does not necessarily imply that Shelter is in agreement with the views expressed but, rather, they are included for the overarching purposes of discussion and action.
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The Shelter News Tracker basically functions as a news tracker on online newspaper reports on abuse and violence on children solely as a platform for discussion and action.
As such, no commentary is written in the blog with regards to the reports.
Comments/feedback posted by readers of the blog are very welcome. However, please be advised that these comments will be moderated to protect the sensitivities of the purpose of this blog.
Inclusion of these comments also does not necessarily imply that Shelter is in agreement with the views expressed but, rather, they are included for the overarching purposes of discussion and action.
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His name is Today
We are guilty of many errors and many faults
but our worst crime
is abandoning the children,
neglecting the fountain of life.
Many of the things we need can wait.
The child cannot.
Right now is the time
his bones are being formed,
his blood is being made,
and his senses are being developed.
To him we cannot answer
'Tomorrow.'
His name is 'Today.'”
Gabriela Mistral (Chilean poet, 1889-1957)
We are guilty of many errors and many faults
but our worst crime
is abandoning the children,
neglecting the fountain of life.
Many of the things we need can wait.
The child cannot.
Right now is the time
his bones are being formed,
his blood is being made,
and his senses are being developed.
To him we cannot answer
'Tomorrow.'
His name is 'Today.'”
Gabriela Mistral (Chilean poet, 1889-1957)
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