Like all endangered Malaysians I am really uneasy by a recent dual court decisions upon orthodox rape offenses.
First, national bowler Noor Afizal, who was convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl, had his prison judgment topsy-turvy by a Court of Appeal.
It was afterwards compounded by Tuesday's Sessions Court preference in a box of Chuah Guan Jiu, who was found guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl, yet freed upon a bond.
Statutory rape isn't something to be taken lightly. To consider "consent" in a sentencing, as both courts did, is to have a hoax of a really indicate of a law--to protect minors, deemed incapable of giving free as well as sensitive consent.
This is generally loyal in cases where a perpetrator is an adult, which is loyal in both these cases. These incidents should not be confused as young young kids letting their hormonal urges get a improved of them.
Both Noor Afizal as well as Chuah Guan Jiu were adults who took value of young kids distant younger than themselves. The former was nineteen when he committed a corruption with a 13-year-old girl, while a latter was 21, nine years comparison than his victim.
Future of a perpetrators, what about a victims?
Disappointingly, a courts were some-more endangered with a future of a perpetrators as well as not a victims.
The written judgement in Nor Afizal's box privately states which a preference should not be taken as a precedent. However, by not imposing a imperative five-year minimum prison judgment for rap! e, a cou rts have been sending a really unfortunate summary to women as well as children--that their rights cannot be protected by our judiciary.
Worse, intensity child rapists competence consider it is possible to escape a punishment a crime deserves.
I titillate a public prosecutors to interest both decisions upon these grounds. Malaysians will be watching really closely, hoping for probity to finally be done.
YB ELIZABETH WONG is Executive Councillor, Selangor State Government & PKR assemblywomen for Bukit Lanjan
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