Child Abuse Cases In Malaysia

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Child abuse cases in malaysia. Many more go unreported. According to social welfare department of malaysia indicated each year at least 1 000 children in malaysia are reported. One in 10 children in malaysia about 750 000 are sexually abused according to community studies. According to the new straits times the extremely violent 1 minute and 36 second footage believed to have been shot in malaysia has attracted the attention of the police.
Child abuse can be defined as intended or unintended harm to a child by another person who may be parents relatives or guardians. In a statement inspector general of police secretariat corporate communications head datuk asmawati ahmad urged anyone with information on the case to come forward to assist in the investigation. Ten months after a pedophilia case shook the nation malaysia s parliament approved tougher prison terms for child sex abusers a move overshadowed by outrage over a politician s remark during debate on the bill that a 9 year old girl is ready for marriage. In 95 of the cases their sexual abusers are people known to them.
Out of the 22 134 child sexual abuse cases child rape cases were the highest at 13 272 59 7 followed by 6 014 27 04 molestation cases 796 cases 8 07 of incest and 1 052 cases involving unnatural sex reported free malaysia today on 27 july. In another case also in perak a seven year old girl had been regularly shown pornographic videos by her step father who had also tried to rape her three times. Based on the welfare department s statistics 14 child abuse cases happen in every day in malaysia if you think this is a high number a disturbing thought we can add is that these are only reported cases there may be others that are unreported. After a string of rape and death cases involving children one of the most appalling incidents that frustrated the nation was the death of an 11 month old girl.
The cases in malaysia are getting serious. A doctor who deals with sexual abuse in children said sometimes it looks like the judge has more sympathy with the sex offender than the child victim.