Amanah Youth to pay fine for youth caught stealing money from mosque
A screen grab from a video of the youth being ‘bathed like a corpse’ after being caught stealing from the mosque’s donation box. He was later jailed 10 days and fined RM4,000 for the offence.
PETALING JAYA: Amanah Youth has offered to pay the RM4,000 fine imposed by the Selayang magistrates court on a teenage boy caught trying to steal money from a mosque to buy medications for his sick grandfather.
Its chief, Hasbie Muda, said apart from helping Daniel Iskandar,19, to pay the fine, the party wing would also buy medications for his grandfather.
Yesterday, the magistrates court sentenced Daniel to 10 days in prison and fined him RM4,000 or five months’ jail, after he admitted stealing money from the donation box of Masjid Al Islahiah, Kuang, Rawang, on Jan 8.
Hasbie said they would give Daniel another chance to reform as well as help his family.
“Amanah Youth will help the teenager’s family to pay the fine as well as pay for his grandfather’s medications.
“This 19-year-old teen deserves a second chance and we need to help him,” said Hasbie in a Facebook post today.
He also described the action by the mosque officials to bathe him like a corpse when they caught him as well as posting the video of it on social media as “excessive”, stressing that a person’s dignity needs to be protected.
“What right did the mosque committee members have to punish him like that? The 10 days prison sentence was already adequate for him (Daniel),” he said.
Earlier, on Monday, a video went viral on social media where a youth was “bathed like a corpse” by several mosque officials after being caught stealing from the mosque’s donation box.
While their act received support from many on social media, who felt that the teenager deserved to be taught a lesson for his wrongdoing, others felt the mosque officials had broken the law by treating him in such a way.
Yesterday, defence counsel Azman Abdullah had asked the court to impose a lenient sentence.
“The accused’s parents have been divorced since he was eight years old. He lives with his grandfather who is in his 70s and they are poor. Their food is donated by neighbours,” he said.
He said that while the teenager had pleaded guilty, circulating the video on social media was not appropriate as it had caused him to become depressed.
PETALING JAYA: Amanah Youth has offered to pay the RM4,000 fine imposed by the Selayang magistrates court on a teenage boy caught trying to steal money from a mosque to buy medications for his sick grandfather.
Its chief, Hasbie Muda, said apart from helping Daniel Iskandar,19, to pay the fine, the party wing would also buy medications for his grandfather.
Yesterday, the magistrates court sentenced Daniel to 10 days in prison and fined him RM4,000 or five months’ jail, after he admitted stealing money from the donation box of Masjid Al Islahiah, Kuang, Rawang, on Jan 8.
Hasbie said they would give Daniel another chance to reform as well as help his family.
“Amanah Youth will help the teenager’s family to pay the fine as well as pay for his grandfather’s medications.
“This 19-year-old teen deserves a second chance and we need to help him,” said Hasbie in a Facebook post today.
He also described the action by the mosque officials to bathe him like a corpse when they caught him as well as posting the video of it on social media as “excessive”, stressing that a person’s dignity needs to be protected.
“What right did the mosque committee members have to punish him like that? The 10 days prison sentence was already adequate for him (Daniel),” he said.
Earlier, on Monday, a video went viral on social media where a youth was “bathed like a corpse” by several mosque officials after being caught stealing from the mosque’s donation box.
While their act received support from many on social media, who felt that the teenager deserved to be taught a lesson for his wrongdoing, others felt the mosque officials had broken the law by treating him in such a way.
Yesterday, defence counsel Azman Abdullah had asked the court to impose a lenient sentence.
“The accused’s parents have been divorced since he was eight years old. He lives with his grandfather who is in his 70s and they are poor. Their food is donated by neighbours,” he said.
He said that while the teenager had pleaded guilty, circulating the video on social media was not appropriate as it had caused him to become depressed.
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