Child Abuse
Posted by snowie , Thursday, April 15, 2010 10:56 PM
Today, when I was browsing through the star online website, I found a news that is related to the child abuse. The news article titled: “Couple held over toddler’s death”. – The Star Online, 15th April 2010
SUBANG JAYA: A three-year-old girl believed to have been abused for over a month by her stepfather has died, prompting police to arrest the man and the mother.
The stepfather, 27, and mother, 24, were arrested by police soon after the girl was taken to Poliklinik Komuniti Seri Kembangan. The stepfather had taken the child, identified as Jasmine Lee, to the clinic after he found her unconscious at their apartment unit in Bukit Serdang at 7.45am yesterday.
A doctor who examined the child found more than 30 bruises on her body, arms, legs, back and head. She was pronounced dead during a medical examination at the clinic.
Sources said the girl was beaten on several occasions by the stepfather and the injury marks on her body pointed to constant abuse.
The doctor, who suspected something amiss when the stepfather could not explain how the girl had suffered such injuries, then alerted the police.
Selangor deputy CID chief Asst Comm Khaw Kok Chin said the stepfather was detained at the clinic while police picked up the mother at their home at 12.45pm.
“Jasmine was not sexually abused and there were no cuts on her,” he said.
A post-mortem was conducted at the Serdang Hospital. ACP Khaw said the stepfather, a mechanic, lost his job at a workshop last month and claimed that he married the woman about a year ago after she separated from her husband.
“After being jobless, he spent most of his time at the apartment with the woman who is a housewife,” he said, adding that the couple were being detained at the Subang Jaya police headquarters.
ACP Khaw urged those with information to assist police in their investigations by calling (Selangor Rakan COP hotline at 03-2052 9999, SMS to 32728 or the Subang Jaya police headquarters at 03-8948 48220).
A nearby resident, who only wanted to be known as Sham, said he had heard the girl crying constantly and screaming for several weeks.
After i read the news article,i surf internet and search for the Child Protection Act in Malaysia which explain as below.
Child Protection Act 1991, under Part VI, section 26– Offences in Relation to the Health and Welfare of Children stated that
a)any person who, being a person having the care of a child, abuses, neglects, abandons or exposes the child in a manner likely to cause him physical or emotional injury or causes or permits him to be so abused, neglected, abandoned or exposed, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to find not exceeding ten thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or both.
b) a parent or other person legally liable to maintain a child shall be deemed to have neglected him in a manner likely to cause him physical or emotional injury if, being able to so provide from his own resources, he fails to provide adequate food, clothing, medical or dental treatment, lodging or care for such child.
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