Monday, May 03, 2021

Rapes in Malaysia

FMT:

120 rape cases seen, but only three went to trial



PETALING JAYA: A gynaecologist, Dr Pravin Peraba, was called to court to testify in only three rape cases although nearly 120 victims were referred to him.

He said specialists in the government sector were required to attend to victims whenever they were brought to hospital after a police report had been made.

“As part of procedure, they’re accompanied by a female officer as a chaperone, and their mother if they’re underaged,” he said. “Then we submit our report to the police. Pursuant to that, we’re then called to testify if the case makes it to court.”

He said he had been called to trial so rarely largely because victims withdrew their complaints, commonly because of family pressure or an unwillingness to be subjected to the stigma and scrutiny of a rape investigation.

In addition to some cases being dismissed, he said, “some of the accused confess to the rape, and in some cases the police and deputy public prosecutor decide not to prosecute because of a lack of evidence. But it’s a very small number.”

The official number of rapes per year has declined over the last 10 years, from over 3,500 in 2010 to around 1,700 in 2019,.

Pravin said this did not necessarily mean that fewer rapes were occurring, simply that fewer were being reported.

He said that this was a product of flippant attitudes, pointing to the recent case of a physical education teacher who allegedly joked about rape during class, which went viral on TikTok.

“With Ain (Husniza Saiful Nizam), some people say it’s a joke, but when people joke about things like this it normalises it, makes people think it’s okay.

“An adult at 30 or 40 might know better. But a 14-year-old girl? In the future, if she’s molested or raped, she won’t come forward because it’s something that’s laughed about. And you’re teaching boys that it’s okay to rape their classmates.”

Pravin said parents must instil a deep respect of women in their sons from a very early age and teach their daughters that sexual assault is not to be trivialised.

“We can’t normalise these crimes. Some might say that we’re better than India or Pakistan, but we don’t want the country to get to a terrible point before we all take action.”

He said it’s heartening to see the issue of casual attitudes towards sexual assault being taken seriously now.

“It’s gratifying to see so many supporters for Ain, male and female. You can’t get 100% of the people to be on the same page, but more people seem to be in support of her.”

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1) MyGovernment says: Polygamy required by Islam due to husband’s “incredible sense of sexual desire” that the wife cannot fulfil.

2) In Kelantan in 2006, deputy mufti Datuk Mohamad Shukri Mohamad informed Berita Harian about Section 128 (1) of the Kelantan Islamic Law Enactment 2002, where Muslim wives would be deemed to be unjust and abusive if they cannot satisfy their husbands' sexual needs.

He warned: “Thus wives who do not provide proper care for their husbands, including not fulfilling their sexual needs, can be considered as being unjust and abusive towards their husbands.”

“These women can be charged under Section 128 (1) of the Kelantan Islamic Law Enactment 2002.”



No doubt he became an instant hero to hubbies wakakaka. So it's hardly surprising that some ulama-politicians constantly harped on issues of sex – whether it’s about:

(a) some bizarre suggestions to prevent sex crimes like the use of chastity belts, and once a PAS’ proposal to train women to be martial artists, or

(b) blaming women for being responsible for arousing men (eg. lipstick, perfume, gatal divorcees, dressing, gyrating Indonesian singer).

3) This reminds me of a so-called national bowler with (words of judge) a 'bright future' who was discharged for statutory rape because the then judges said he merely had 'consensual sex' with a 13 year old girl.

See my post 2nd chance as "boys will be boys" in which I brought out an incident in 2012 when a maggot by the name of Noor Afizal Azizan (and we shall call him Mr Maggot) was given a '2nd chance' by the judges because he only had consensual sex with a 13-year old - yes, 'consensual sex' with a 13-year old in the words of the judge.


Somehow our Malaysian legal system has set a stare decisis (legal precedent) where the term 'consensual sex' was allowed to be employed in a case involving sex with a female minor, only 13 years of age, even if she was well below the age required to legally consent to the act.

4) On the topic of International Women’s Day, Perak PAS Information chief - Wan Tarmizi Abdul Aziz - suggested that more women should consent to polygamy as a show of female empowerment.


"Women's Day will be more meaningful if a woman gifts another woman to her spouse as a mark of appreciation of other women," he wrote on his Facebook account on 8 March.


5 comments:

  1. Thank you for reminding me why I WILL NEVER convert to Islam

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  2. U have choice bcoz of yr race.

    There r others who us born into it!

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  3. That's not Islam, that's taliban and if something sounded like Islam but coming from PASik that's also not Islam, that's PASik. PASik consider themselves as Islam but they are not. Their real religion is PAS.

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