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Monday, 11 June 2007
2007 06: Mechanic claims trial to rape
NST online. Local News. 9/06/07
SHAH ALAM: A 20-year-old mechanic was charged at the Sessions Court yesterday with raping a 16-year-old girl.
Nazrul Hakimy Latip claimed trial to raping his victim at a house in Taman Greenwood in Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur between 2pm and 5pm on Feb 7. Judge Azimah Omar granted him RM5,000 bail with one surety and ordered him to report to the nearest police station once a month. She also warned him not to contact the victim. Azimah fixed July 12 for mention.
Deputy public prosecutor Hana Hadinah Mohd Sheikh Ghazali prosecuted while Nazrul was represented by counsel Abdul Rashid Tasin.
SHAH ALAM: A 20-year-old mechanic was charged at the Sessions Court yesterday with raping a 16-year-old girl.
Nazrul Hakimy Latip claimed trial to raping his victim at a house in Taman Greenwood in Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur between 2pm and 5pm on Feb 7. Judge Azimah Omar granted him RM5,000 bail with one surety and ordered him to report to the nearest police station once a month. She also warned him not to contact the victim. Azimah fixed July 12 for mention.
Deputy public prosecutor Hana Hadinah Mohd Sheikh Ghazali prosecuted while Nazrul was represented by counsel Abdul Rashid Tasin.
2007 06: Home News in Brief: Incest: Man claims trial
NST online. Local News. 9/06/07
PETALING JAYA: A taxi driver claimed trial at the Sessions Court to attempting to commit incest with his 13-year-old daughter.
The 46-year-old father of five, also pleaded not guilty to using criminal force against his eldest daughter with the intention of outraging her modesty. The offences were committed at his house at 1.30am on March 16. Deputy public prosecutor Norliana Ismail proposed bail at RM10,000. However Judge Nurmala Salim allowed bail of RM7,000 for both charges with one surety.
PETALING JAYA: A taxi driver claimed trial at the Sessions Court to attempting to commit incest with his 13-year-old daughter.
The 46-year-old father of five, also pleaded not guilty to using criminal force against his eldest daughter with the intention of outraging her modesty. The offences were committed at his house at 1.30am on March 16. Deputy public prosecutor Norliana Ismail proposed bail at RM10,000. However Judge Nurmala Salim allowed bail of RM7,000 for both charges with one surety.
2007 06: 4 men, youth charged with murder
NST online. Local News. 9/06/07
Rita Jong
KLANG: Four men and a juvenile were charged in the magistrate’s court yesterday with the murder of a photographer in Banting two months ago.
G. Satiaraj, Mohd Prabu Abdullah, R. Gunasegaran, M. Sattian, aged between 19 and 24, and a 17-year-old youth, were alleged to have murdered G. Nethyananthan, 25, also a wedding planner, at the Taman Sungai Kapar Indah water tank here.
The alleged offence was committed between 8.38pm on April 26 and 5.50pm on May 2.
Magistrate Mujib Saroji transferred the case to the Shah Alam High Court and fixed June 29 for mention.
Satiaraj was represented by counsel Gerard Lazarus, while the other four were not represented.
Satiaraj, Mohd Prabu and the juvenile were also slapped with another charge of raping Nethyananthan’s girlfriend.
They claimed trial to raping the 21-year-old sales promoter on top of the water tank in Sungai Kapar Indah, between 12.01 am and 6am on April 27.
Sessions Court judge M. Gunalan denied bail and fixed Jan 23 to 25 for trial.
Deputy public prosecutor Azmeer Mohd Sardi prosecuted both cases. It was reported last month that Nethyananthan was found buried with slash wounds on the body.
Nethyananthan and his girlfriend were reported missing on April 26 after they went to meet several clients on a business matter.
They were believed to have been abducted and bundled into two cars after they reached the meeting spot in Jalan Tengku Kelana, Klang.
Rita Jong
KLANG: Four men and a juvenile were charged in the magistrate’s court yesterday with the murder of a photographer in Banting two months ago.
G. Satiaraj, Mohd Prabu Abdullah, R. Gunasegaran, M. Sattian, aged between 19 and 24, and a 17-year-old youth, were alleged to have murdered G. Nethyananthan, 25, also a wedding planner, at the Taman Sungai Kapar Indah water tank here.
The alleged offence was committed between 8.38pm on April 26 and 5.50pm on May 2.
Magistrate Mujib Saroji transferred the case to the Shah Alam High Court and fixed June 29 for mention.
Satiaraj was represented by counsel Gerard Lazarus, while the other four were not represented.
Satiaraj, Mohd Prabu and the juvenile were also slapped with another charge of raping Nethyananthan’s girlfriend.
They claimed trial to raping the 21-year-old sales promoter on top of the water tank in Sungai Kapar Indah, between 12.01 am and 6am on April 27.
Sessions Court judge M. Gunalan denied bail and fixed Jan 23 to 25 for trial.
Deputy public prosecutor Azmeer Mohd Sardi prosecuted both cases. It was reported last month that Nethyananthan was found buried with slash wounds on the body.
Nethyananthan and his girlfriend were reported missing on April 26 after they went to meet several clients on a business matter.
They were believed to have been abducted and bundled into two cars after they reached the meeting spot in Jalan Tengku Kelana, Klang.
2007 06: Spotlight: NOBODY’S CHILD...
NST online. Frontpage. 9/06/07
K.S. USHA DEVI
Despite numerous social safety nets, babies are still being abandoned regularly.Better sex education and advice for the young may be the best way to save babies from being dumped, writes K. S. USHA DEVI
DRESSED in a green T-shirt and short pants, the toddler hugs his brown teddy bear and gurgles.
One-year-old Alif Firdaus Abdullah looks happy and comfortable in his playpen at the Pernim orphanage in Cheras.
He is a long way from the ordeal that marked the start of his innocent life: Alif was abandoned by his unwed mother at a hospital in Kelantan.
But two months later, Norlina Alawi, who runs the Nurul Iman Welfare Society/Foundation for Children of People Living with HIV/AIDS (Pernim), took Alif in. She also takes care of two other abandoned babies, Darus Aiman and Mohd Aiman Abdullah and three dozen other children.
"Their mothers could not take care of them, so I brought them home when they were a few months old," said Norlina, who turned her home into an orphanage.
Alif is fortunate. In many instances, abandoned babies die because their mothers, mostly under-aged, unwed or unable to take care of them, cast them aside.
These babies are left in waste dumps, rivers, bushes, drains and public toilets, among other places.
Although there are many helping hands to provide for unwed mothers, they still abandon their babies because of the social stigma and legal implications attached to a baby born out of wedlock.
They are afraid of bringing shame to their families, of being ostracised by fellow students or friends, or losing their marital prospects, especially if they are from conservative families.
Under the Child Act 2001, the mother could also be jailed up to 10 years and/or fined up to RM20,000. (Currently, men escape responsibility for fathering children out of wedlock because the law does not require them to give their DNA sample to prove paternity).
But help is available for unwed mothers to deal with their pregnancy, said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil. And a shelter home can be provided for both mother and baby by the Welfare Department.
Shahrizat said: "We are there for them. They need to call the nearest welfare office to seek help."Drop-in baby hatches for abandoned babies, a solution in European countries, are not an option considered by the government at the moment, said Shahrizat, because it might be seen as sending the wrong signal to young people.
Former assistant director of the Social Welfare Department Vijayakumari Pillai agreed that it might encourage young women, especially teenagers, to treat sexual encounters lightly and not bother about precautions.
Drop-in hatches for babies in hospitals, schools or office buildings are used in European countries to keep abandoned babies safe from danger and assist the mother in finding an adoptive home or orphanage.
The baby hatch is usually a small structure equipped with a heated cot. As soon as the woman leaves the child in the cot, without being seen, an alarm goes off so that a medical practitioner or a social worker can care for the baby.
While Malaysia has no baby hatches or shelters, advocacy programmes on family planning and reproductive health at grassroots levels are run by the Welfare Department through its agency, the National Population and Family Development Board and non-government organisations.
Since 1992, the department has also had child protection teams at district level to monitor, advise and counsel families on reproductive health and issues, said Social Welfare Department director-general Rafek Reshidullah.
"The latest advocacy programme, Parenting @Work, early this year was aimed at educating parents about balancing their responsibilities between work and family.
"This is to ensure that their children will not be left unattended, and get involved with social ills." Some of these abandoned little ones are also placed under the care of individuals such as Alif’s caretaker, Norlina, who runs a welfare entity registered under the department.
Another solution to discourage young pregnant women from abandoning their babies is for them to take refuge in shelter homes until the baby is born.The department has five of these safe havens, called Taman Seri Putri, in the country. These places shelter teenage mothers below the age of 18. (Unwed mothers over 18 are taken in by NGOs).
Besides undergoing counselling for adoption (if needed) and fostering to help them deal with their predicament, the young women are taught living skills such as tailoring, basic accounts and computer courses over their two- to three-year stay there.
However, shelter homes such as these are shrouded under a cloak of secrecy."Shelter homes or safe havens for young women are still not publicly known," said Maria Chin Abdullah, executive director of Women’s Development Collective, an NGO promoting full participation of women in Malaysian society.
"But since baby hatches are not considered feasible, the state should take the responsibility to have more shelter homes for these young pregnant women."
Although there are positive efforts, babies still continue to be dumped. Statistics from Bukit Aman revealed 320 reported cases of abandoned babies from 2003 to last year. The highest number for all four years was in Selangor.
Newborns form the highest num- ber of abandoned babies, with a total of 79 reported cases last year.
"This is because many young women believe that pregnancy will not happen to them. When it does and they don’t know where to turn to, they abandon the baby," said Vijayakumari, who has 22 years of experience in the department.
Both Vijayakumari and Chin urged the government to focus on sex education and guidance for the young and provide appropriate services for reproductive health so that teenage pregnancies could be reduced.
Meanwhile the Federation of Family Planning Associations (FFPAM) has run peer-to peer programmes for young people on adolescent sexual and reproductive health for many years.
This includes learning about safe sex, use of contraceptives and abortion, among others. "With sex education, 10 years down the road, the problem of abandoned babies could be reduced," Chin said.
K.S. USHA DEVI
Despite numerous social safety nets, babies are still being abandoned regularly.Better sex education and advice for the young may be the best way to save babies from being dumped, writes K. S. USHA DEVI
DRESSED in a green T-shirt and short pants, the toddler hugs his brown teddy bear and gurgles.
One-year-old Alif Firdaus Abdullah looks happy and comfortable in his playpen at the Pernim orphanage in Cheras.
He is a long way from the ordeal that marked the start of his innocent life: Alif was abandoned by his unwed mother at a hospital in Kelantan.
But two months later, Norlina Alawi, who runs the Nurul Iman Welfare Society/Foundation for Children of People Living with HIV/AIDS (Pernim), took Alif in. She also takes care of two other abandoned babies, Darus Aiman and Mohd Aiman Abdullah and three dozen other children.
"Their mothers could not take care of them, so I brought them home when they were a few months old," said Norlina, who turned her home into an orphanage.
Alif is fortunate. In many instances, abandoned babies die because their mothers, mostly under-aged, unwed or unable to take care of them, cast them aside.
These babies are left in waste dumps, rivers, bushes, drains and public toilets, among other places.
Although there are many helping hands to provide for unwed mothers, they still abandon their babies because of the social stigma and legal implications attached to a baby born out of wedlock.
They are afraid of bringing shame to their families, of being ostracised by fellow students or friends, or losing their marital prospects, especially if they are from conservative families.
Under the Child Act 2001, the mother could also be jailed up to 10 years and/or fined up to RM20,000. (Currently, men escape responsibility for fathering children out of wedlock because the law does not require them to give their DNA sample to prove paternity).
But help is available for unwed mothers to deal with their pregnancy, said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil. And a shelter home can be provided for both mother and baby by the Welfare Department.
Shahrizat said: "We are there for them. They need to call the nearest welfare office to seek help."Drop-in baby hatches for abandoned babies, a solution in European countries, are not an option considered by the government at the moment, said Shahrizat, because it might be seen as sending the wrong signal to young people.
Former assistant director of the Social Welfare Department Vijayakumari Pillai agreed that it might encourage young women, especially teenagers, to treat sexual encounters lightly and not bother about precautions.
Drop-in hatches for babies in hospitals, schools or office buildings are used in European countries to keep abandoned babies safe from danger and assist the mother in finding an adoptive home or orphanage.
The baby hatch is usually a small structure equipped with a heated cot. As soon as the woman leaves the child in the cot, without being seen, an alarm goes off so that a medical practitioner or a social worker can care for the baby.
While Malaysia has no baby hatches or shelters, advocacy programmes on family planning and reproductive health at grassroots levels are run by the Welfare Department through its agency, the National Population and Family Development Board and non-government organisations.
Since 1992, the department has also had child protection teams at district level to monitor, advise and counsel families on reproductive health and issues, said Social Welfare Department director-general Rafek Reshidullah.
"The latest advocacy programme, Parenting @Work, early this year was aimed at educating parents about balancing their responsibilities between work and family.
"This is to ensure that their children will not be left unattended, and get involved with social ills." Some of these abandoned little ones are also placed under the care of individuals such as Alif’s caretaker, Norlina, who runs a welfare entity registered under the department.
Another solution to discourage young pregnant women from abandoning their babies is for them to take refuge in shelter homes until the baby is born.The department has five of these safe havens, called Taman Seri Putri, in the country. These places shelter teenage mothers below the age of 18. (Unwed mothers over 18 are taken in by NGOs).
Besides undergoing counselling for adoption (if needed) and fostering to help them deal with their predicament, the young women are taught living skills such as tailoring, basic accounts and computer courses over their two- to three-year stay there.
However, shelter homes such as these are shrouded under a cloak of secrecy."Shelter homes or safe havens for young women are still not publicly known," said Maria Chin Abdullah, executive director of Women’s Development Collective, an NGO promoting full participation of women in Malaysian society.
"But since baby hatches are not considered feasible, the state should take the responsibility to have more shelter homes for these young pregnant women."
Although there are positive efforts, babies still continue to be dumped. Statistics from Bukit Aman revealed 320 reported cases of abandoned babies from 2003 to last year. The highest number for all four years was in Selangor.
Newborns form the highest num- ber of abandoned babies, with a total of 79 reported cases last year.
"This is because many young women believe that pregnancy will not happen to them. When it does and they don’t know where to turn to, they abandon the baby," said Vijayakumari, who has 22 years of experience in the department.
Both Vijayakumari and Chin urged the government to focus on sex education and guidance for the young and provide appropriate services for reproductive health so that teenage pregnancies could be reduced.
Meanwhile the Federation of Family Planning Associations (FFPAM) has run peer-to peer programmes for young people on adolescent sexual and reproductive health for many years.
This includes learning about safe sex, use of contraceptives and abortion, among others. "With sex education, 10 years down the road, the problem of abandoned babies could be reduced," Chin said.
2007 06: Jailed but shows no remorse
NST online. Local News. 8/06/07.
PETALING JAYA: Two 12-year-old boys will have to deal with the trauma for the rest of their lives.
But the man who pleaded guilty to sodomising them seemed more interested in arranging to have his belongings collected.
All 28-year-old Mohd Fauzi Imbap Abdullah had to say in the Sessions Court yesterday in his own defence was: "I have come here from Sarawak to work so I can take care of my sickly and aged parents."
Fauzi was charged with sodomising the two boys at a Perkim children’s shelter in Damansara Utama.
One was sodomised three times — twice in April and once in May. The other was sodomised in March.
After forcing himself on the boys, he would lock them in their rooms.
The incidents were reported to police after one of the boys told his sister what had happened. Fauzi was arrested on May 28.
Fauzi showed no remorse in his mitigation plea.
After comments about his parents, he seemed more interested in arranging for his belongings, and some of a cousin’s, to be retrieved from his room.
"Some of my cousin’s things are in my room. If they (Perkim officers) can contact him, he can remove my things."
Judge Nurmala Salim sentenced him to 12 years’ jail and four strokes of the rotan for each of the first three charges, and 10 years and two strokes for the fourth. The charges are to run concurrently. In passing sentence, she said: "What you did was disgusting."
PETALING JAYA: Two 12-year-old boys will have to deal with the trauma for the rest of their lives.
But the man who pleaded guilty to sodomising them seemed more interested in arranging to have his belongings collected.
All 28-year-old Mohd Fauzi Imbap Abdullah had to say in the Sessions Court yesterday in his own defence was: "I have come here from Sarawak to work so I can take care of my sickly and aged parents."
Fauzi was charged with sodomising the two boys at a Perkim children’s shelter in Damansara Utama.
One was sodomised three times — twice in April and once in May. The other was sodomised in March.
After forcing himself on the boys, he would lock them in their rooms.
The incidents were reported to police after one of the boys told his sister what had happened. Fauzi was arrested on May 28.
Fauzi showed no remorse in his mitigation plea.
After comments about his parents, he seemed more interested in arranging for his belongings, and some of a cousin’s, to be retrieved from his room.
"Some of my cousin’s things are in my room. If they (Perkim officers) can contact him, he can remove my things."
Judge Nurmala Salim sentenced him to 12 years’ jail and four strokes of the rotan for each of the first three charges, and 10 years and two strokes for the fourth. The charges are to run concurrently. In passing sentence, she said: "What you did was disgusting."
2007 06: Guard on rape charge changes plea
The Star online. News. Courts. Friday June 8, 2007
KUALA LUMPUR: The security guard who admitted that he tried to rape a Kolej Tunku Abdul Rahman (Ktar) student in April changed his plea yesterday.
However, he maintained his guilty plea for two other charges of assault and molestation.
The guard from Gombak Setia, who had been charged at a juvenile court here because he was underage at the time of the offences, has since turned 18.
He is accused of assaulting the 18-year-old student from Jinjang Utara with a rock at a covered pedestrian walkway at the Ktar campus in Jalan Genting Klang between 5.30pm and 5.35pm on April 21.
He then allegedly molested the girl beside a drain between 5.40pm and 5.45pm.
The third charge, which he claimed trial to yesterday, accused him of attempting to rape his victim between 5.45pm and 5.50pm at the same spot.
He was three-and-a-half weeks shy of his 18th birthday at that time.
Although the RM15,000 bail offered to the teenager still stood, his mother did not post bail. He will continue to remain under remand at the Kajang Prison.
Magistrate Nurulizwan Ahmad Zubir fixed July 10 to mention the case again to allow him to appoint a lawyer.
C/Insp Zakaria Alias appeared for the prosecution while lawyer Cheow Wee held a watching brief for the victim.
KUALA LUMPUR: The security guard who admitted that he tried to rape a Kolej Tunku Abdul Rahman (Ktar) student in April changed his plea yesterday.
However, he maintained his guilty plea for two other charges of assault and molestation.
The guard from Gombak Setia, who had been charged at a juvenile court here because he was underage at the time of the offences, has since turned 18.
He is accused of assaulting the 18-year-old student from Jinjang Utara with a rock at a covered pedestrian walkway at the Ktar campus in Jalan Genting Klang between 5.30pm and 5.35pm on April 21.
He then allegedly molested the girl beside a drain between 5.40pm and 5.45pm.
The third charge, which he claimed trial to yesterday, accused him of attempting to rape his victim between 5.45pm and 5.50pm at the same spot.
He was three-and-a-half weeks shy of his 18th birthday at that time.
Although the RM15,000 bail offered to the teenager still stood, his mother did not post bail. He will continue to remain under remand at the Kajang Prison.
Magistrate Nurulizwan Ahmad Zubir fixed July 10 to mention the case again to allow him to appoint a lawyer.
C/Insp Zakaria Alias appeared for the prosecution while lawyer Cheow Wee held a watching brief for the victim.
2007 06: Held over alleged rape of girl, 12
NST online. Local News. 7/06/07.
KEMAMAN: A 23-year-old youth has been detained on suspicion of raping a 12-year-old girl in his house on Sunday.
The suspect was picked up near his house in Kampung Tempurung, Chukai on Tuesday at 1pm.
State CID deputy head Superintendent Khairi Ahrasa said the suspect, who also tested positive for drugs, was being held at the Chukai police station to facilitate investigations.
In the incident, the victim had followed the suspect back to his home after meeting him at a mall here.
KEMAMAN: A 23-year-old youth has been detained on suspicion of raping a 12-year-old girl in his house on Sunday.
The suspect was picked up near his house in Kampung Tempurung, Chukai on Tuesday at 1pm.
State CID deputy head Superintendent Khairi Ahrasa said the suspect, who also tested positive for drugs, was being held at the Chukai police station to facilitate investigations.
In the incident, the victim had followed the suspect back to his home after meeting him at a mall here.
2007 06: Don’t make use of children to raise funds
The Star online. News. Opinion. Thursday June 7, 2007
IT was 9.30pm and I was just leaving my office at Tower 2 of the KLCC. At the sliding glass door, I was approached by a young Malay boy wearing a songkok and toting a sling bag.
He greeted me with a polite Assalamualaikum and started to sell a CD and some sort of medicinal balm. I have seen my share of street peddlers in KL, but what shocked me was how young he was.
I asked him how old he was and where he came from. He said he was 13 years old and from Kedah. He told me he was a student, there were two of them at KLCC that night, that his Ustaz had dropped them off at KLCC and would be waiting for them at the Kelana Jaya LRT station.
I asked what he was doing at KLCC at 9.30pm, when he should be at home doing his homework or watching TV.
He said his headmaster had told them to go to KLCC to help raise funds for his school. I asked him whether he had had his dinner and had prayed. He replied rather smugly that he had had some nasi bungkus and had already prayed at the KLCC surau.
I am appalled to see that child labour is still rearing its ugly head in our beloved country. As if there aren’t enough social ills plaguing our society, the inconsiderate way schools are making use of our youths to collect funds for their schools must be outlawed immediately.
I’m not sure whether parents of the above school know what their sons are being made to do, and I pray that the relevant authorities will take the necessary steps to eradicate this terrible injustice.
To the schools out there who make use of our youths to raise funds, stop this nonsense and just concentrate on educating them.
Azlan A. Aziz,
Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
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Fundraising inculcates values
The Star online. News Opinion. Saturday June 9, 2007
I REFER to Don’t make use of children to raise funds(The Star, June 7). Coming from a government-aided school, I am proud to have done my fair share of fundraising for my school.
A government-aided school does not receive enough money for expanding the school. It is for this reason that these schools resort to fundraising.
While I can’t speak for all students, I do not agree that collecting funds for a school contributes to “social ills plaguing our society”. It is during these fundraisers that students learn to be humble and appreciate the value of money, as it takes a lot of cajoling to raise a ringgit or two.
Fundraising cannot be constituted as child labour. As far as my former school was concerned, nobody was forced to take part in the annual fundraiser and neither was anyone given a salary for it.
Fundraising wasn’t nonsense to me; it certainly was part of my childhood education.
LEE SENG JEA,
Kuala Lumpur.
IT was 9.30pm and I was just leaving my office at Tower 2 of the KLCC. At the sliding glass door, I was approached by a young Malay boy wearing a songkok and toting a sling bag.
He greeted me with a polite Assalamualaikum and started to sell a CD and some sort of medicinal balm. I have seen my share of street peddlers in KL, but what shocked me was how young he was.
I asked him how old he was and where he came from. He said he was 13 years old and from Kedah. He told me he was a student, there were two of them at KLCC that night, that his Ustaz had dropped them off at KLCC and would be waiting for them at the Kelana Jaya LRT station.
I asked what he was doing at KLCC at 9.30pm, when he should be at home doing his homework or watching TV.
He said his headmaster had told them to go to KLCC to help raise funds for his school. I asked him whether he had had his dinner and had prayed. He replied rather smugly that he had had some nasi bungkus and had already prayed at the KLCC surau.
I am appalled to see that child labour is still rearing its ugly head in our beloved country. As if there aren’t enough social ills plaguing our society, the inconsiderate way schools are making use of our youths to collect funds for their schools must be outlawed immediately.
I’m not sure whether parents of the above school know what their sons are being made to do, and I pray that the relevant authorities will take the necessary steps to eradicate this terrible injustice.
To the schools out there who make use of our youths to raise funds, stop this nonsense and just concentrate on educating them.
Azlan A. Aziz,
Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
........................................................
Fundraising inculcates values
The Star online. News Opinion. Saturday June 9, 2007
I REFER to Don’t make use of children to raise funds(The Star, June 7). Coming from a government-aided school, I am proud to have done my fair share of fundraising for my school.
A government-aided school does not receive enough money for expanding the school. It is for this reason that these schools resort to fundraising.
While I can’t speak for all students, I do not agree that collecting funds for a school contributes to “social ills plaguing our society”. It is during these fundraisers that students learn to be humble and appreciate the value of money, as it takes a lot of cajoling to raise a ringgit or two.
Fundraising cannot be constituted as child labour. As far as my former school was concerned, nobody was forced to take part in the annual fundraiser and neither was anyone given a salary for it.
Fundraising wasn’t nonsense to me; it certainly was part of my childhood education.
LEE SENG JEA,
Kuala Lumpur.
2007 06: 14-year-old claims boyfriend raped her during date
The Star online. News. Courts. Wednesday June 6, 2007
JOHOR BARU: A teenager, out on a date with her boyfriend, ended up being raped by him.
The 14-year-old told her mother about it three days after the incident and a 17-year-old boy has been detained.
The girl had followed the boy to his house at Taman Universiti at about 1am on Friday.
Once there, he raped her, she alleged.
The boy has been remanded for a week.
JOHOR BARU: A teenager, out on a date with her boyfriend, ended up being raped by him.
The 14-year-old told her mother about it three days after the incident and a 17-year-old boy has been detained.
The girl had followed the boy to his house at Taman Universiti at about 1am on Friday.
Once there, he raped her, she alleged.
The boy has been remanded for a week.
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