Malaysia Crime Watch

16 November 2008
Kangar

A father of two children, aged 9 and 12 years, have been remanded for four days by the police while the children’s stepmother was arrested and later set on bail on charges of abusing them.

The children’s 58-year-old grandfather reported to the police on Friday when he found bruises on them. The victims claimed that they had been beaten by their father and stepmother with a clothes hanger and a cane after they had failed to iron the clothes of their stepbrother and stepsister on the night before.

A medical report has indicated that there are signs of abuse on the children.

New Straits Times Online – Kids claim abuse by dad, stepmum
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/National/2403242/Article/index_html>

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15 November 2008
Pasir Gudang

Immigration Department officers were raiding houses in Taman Masai and Taman Rinting here last night when they discovered that the houses were used as baby selling centres. Operation Ops Pintu Serkap was intended to sniff out illegal immigrants from Indonesia.

In the first house in Taman Masai, officers found two women, one of whom was Indonesian, and two babies. The women were both pregnant. Five Indonesian women and two Indonesian men were arrested in the second house in Taman Rinting. Authorities seized several MyKads, child adoption forms and birth certificates issued by a private clinic.

It is believed that the babies and illegitimate children were sold to couples by this syndicate.

New Straits Times Online – Baby-for-sale syndicate’s ‘centres’ raided
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Saturday/National/2402625/Article/index_html>

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15 November 2008
Malacca

Three people, two men and a woman, aged between 29 and 35 years, are wanted by the police in relation to the murder of a 34-year-old widow last Tuesday. The suspects are neighbours to the victim in Kampung Hujung Padang, Cheng.

It is believed that the suspects and the victim were involved in an argument before she went missing. The widow’s decomposed and burnt body was found by an angler in an oil palm plantation in Krubong. Her body was identified by one of her five children who recognized a locket on her.

The post-mortem revealed that the victim had a slash wound on her neck, which likely caused her death.

The victim’s children, aged between 5 and 18 years, will be getting assistance from the State Public Affairs and Welfare department for the time-being. The family had been receiving financial help from the state since the death of the father two months ago.

The Star Online – Police looking for three people in widow’s slaying
<URL:http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/11/15/nation/2553815&sec=nation>

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