Don't ever try to give kids apple to eat.If you do, you may be arrested and charged for child molesting.
Our police and society as a whole are suffering from phobias and paranoias.
In Shah Alam, an odd-job worker offered a 7-year-old child an apple. The kid cried and ran home to tell her parents. The father reported the matter to the police.
It was good to be careful and to take precaution. However, nobody knows whether that man who gave the apple did meant well or had intended to molest the kid. But the man was arrested and taken to the police station for interrogation.
For those who had not experience police interrogation, you won't be able to understand the situation, the pain, and the stresses induced. If that person had a malicious motive, we would not sympathizes with him. However, if that man is doing it for a moral cause, he would still need to go through the torturous and horrendous period.
I had a friend who was suspected of criminal activities. He was a diabetic. He spent 14 days in the lockup. He nows lost his leg which had to be amputated because of the wounds inflicted. I could not make further comments here. The issue would be settled in the court of law. But the incident explains what to expect when someone is under interrogation.
4 comments:
this is like a... er... chicken and egg situation?
on one hand children are told not to talk to strangers, not to accept any food from strangers. then on one hand if someone see a child all by him/herself and want to help the child, if she/he approach the child, she/he might get arrested.
so apa macam ini? maybe next time when you want to approach a child with the good intention of helping her/him, you'd better do it in group (more than 1 person).
hi mavericky, you didn't read the whole news. apparently the bangladeshi guy offered a more exotic 'fruit' after he lured the poor girl into his house.
Dear Anon,
Maybe, you should also ask those from Shah Alam neighbors.
Lucia, apa macam? Macam-macam!
To the editor
New Strait Times
Malaysia.
I am yet to receive any response from you based on the email I sent to you on 29 Sept 2007 with the heading "News about Africans is Malaysia media's favourite" regarding the problems your publication caused in Kepong area among Africans and local Malaysians.
Please respond to this email as soon as possible otherwise I will take it further.
Below is the email am refering:
To the editor
New Strait Times
Malaysia
I would be glad if you can look into this matter with special attention.
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News about Africans is Malaysia media's favourite
Malaysia media usually give biased account of any incedent that involve Africans living in Malaysia thereby adding more fuel into the fire by brainwashing the conservative minds the locals to increase their hatred on all Africans especially Nigerians. Through observations you will understand that average conservative Malaysian (especially the chinese) see Africa as a big country with Nigeria as the capital believing that everyone is bad or wherever they go or whatever they do constitute nuisance to the public and thinking that they, the locals are not safe living together with Africans. With this mentality over Africans and hatred to skin colour, locals living in kepong gave a lot of false complaints as recorded in the star newspaper of 28th September 2007.
Since two Nigerians were arrested to help the police in investigation into the murder of two Chinese women in Kepong as the police is yet to identify the real culprit has polluted the minds of local Chinese living in kepong because of the way the news was disseminated by the media to the public.
The New Straight Times begins with their news by making some negative remarks about Africa using uncertain complaints of some locals based on their bad impressions about Africa thereby damaging the image of Africa especially Nigeria all over Malaysia.
The consequencies of the news reported by New Straight Times has worsen the hatred for Africans and increase racism in Kepong area. About 100 Africans living in Kepong fear for their safety due to the hostility shown by the local community after the arrest of two Nigerian students in connection with the brutal murder of a women and her housemate. They way chinese stare at Africans in Kepong seem very embarrassing and their views about Africans is totally different after the news was published. Some group of chinese men have been harrasing and trying to hit any African they find in issolated area believing that they are connected to the murder. Just imagine what will happen if Africans try to retaliate.
Though there are few bad eggs among us but back their in Nigeria we don't commit rape and murder. Let Malaysia Police carry out proper investigation, am sure that no Nigerian is in connection with this.
Malaysians and Malaysia media must understand that there are hundreds of thousands of Asians living in Africa and if this news of hatred to skin colour spreads to Africa, it will cause more damage to their safety. Thousands of Chinese are operating all sorts of businesses in Africa and even causing nuisance especially in Lagos State but due to our respect for foreigners no matter what they do, we never hate them or damage their image through media or other means. It's left for the government to decide.
I would like to use this medium to address this issue of hatred to Africans by Malaysians and urge the press to ensure that what they diseminate to the public will promote peace and harmony in Malaysia.
I would be glad if this piece of writing will be published.
BY:
Anonymous resident in Kepong, Nigerian student in Malaysia.
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