The Star online. News. South & East. Wednesday March 28, 2007
KOTA KINABALU: A 16-year-old girl quit school and her uncle, 50, offered her a lucrative paying job.
The only problem was that the man had 11 previous criminal records and he got his niece involved in his business of packing and distributing the synthetic drug, syabu, from a house in Tuaran district, about 25km from the city.
Police got word of their activities and raided the house at Telipok Ria last week and recovered syabu with a street value of about RM23,000.
They arrested the girl and her uncle and two other men and seized more than RM82,000 of goods from the house including two cars.
Sabah police anti narcotics chief Supt Yap Toon Khuan said the police team found 38 packets of a crystal-like substance totalling 67.1g.
“The house was used as a packing centre for the syabu which was distributed to drug dealers around Tuaran, Kota Kinabalu and nearby districts,” he said recently.
“We believe the 50-year-old man is the mastermind of the operation,” Supt Yap said.
He said police also believe the group had been operating since the middle of last year.
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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."
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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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