The Star online. News. Nation. Friday March 23, 2007
BESUT: A teenage girl who went to watch a soccer match at a futsal court in Kampung Raja here claims that she was gang-raped by the football team with the cooperation of her boyfriend.
The 14-year-old victim alleged that her sweetheart, 20, had invited her to watch the game last week.
When they arrived at the court, he told to her to wait while he went to get his team.
About 10 minutes later, seven strangers surrounded the victim and took turns raping her.
The teenager claimed that she was helpless and, after almost 30 minutes, her boyfriend returned and began coaxing her against lodging a police report saying that if her parents found out, they would object to their relationship.
After a lengthy discussion, he managed to persuade her to keep the whole matter a secret and dropped the Form Two student at her home at about 11pm on that day.
The girl concealed the matter but her mother noticed that she was behaving strangely and asked her about it. Unable to keep the sordid tale to herself any longer, the girl told her parents what happened.
A police report was lodged and the police detained the victim’s boyfriend and two others aged between 19 and 21.
State CID chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Hazam Abdul Halim said police are still looking for the other men.
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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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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.
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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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