Dont rush new statutory rape bill, Nazri told


DAP's Teresa Kok urges a AG Chambers to deliberate applicable groups prior to tabling a check in council to restrict judges' energy upon orthodox rape sentences.
KUALA LUMPUR: De facto law apportion Nazri Aziz was currently urged to conduct consummate consultation with applicable groups prior to a check is tabled in council to amend laws regarding to orthodox rape.
DAP parliamentarian for Seputeh Teresa Kok pronounced Nazri contingency initial setup a cabinet that enclosed Attorney-General's Chambers (AG) as good as Women, Family as good as Community Development Ministry so that a polished law could be drafted to most appropriate resolve a matter.
"The cabinet should deliberate women's groups, deputy public prosecutors, social workers, shelter homes as good as so upon to get their opinion," she pronounced during a press conference during a Federal Territories DAP annual gathering 2012 today.
Kok was commenting upon Nazri's statement yesterday that an legislative addition would be tabled in council shortly to nullify judges from exercising their optional power, underneath a Criminal Procedure Code 294 (1), to revoke a judgment since to orthodox rapists.
Nazri had reportedly pronounced that a sustenance would be combined to Section 376 of Penal Code, that prescribes mandatory prison sentences for those convicted of orthodox rape.
In recent months, a public had lifted concerns upon judges' optional energy after a inhabitant bowler as good as an electrician were authorised to go scot free notwithstanding carrying committed orthodox rape opposite their underaged girlfriends respectively.
Koh pron! ounced s he was opposite a mandatory 5 year prison tenure used to be meted out to a orthodox assailant prior to 2006, but combined she was also opposite no punishment.
"Nowadays many teenagers have consensual sex, as good as a direction is increasing. If a 18-year-old guy was brought to prison for 5 years for carrying sex with his girl friend, his future will be gone," she said.
"In a United States or United Kingdom, a laws have been very minute in those offences. So you think you should make laws to be some-more polished as well," she said.
Meanwhile, a gathering attended by 82 participants as good as twelve observers had upheld resolutions to urge a sovereign government to take difficult measures upon a annual budget to forestall leakages; to rouse a standing of Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to be responsible to parliament; as good as to examination a Automated Enforcement System, among others.
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