Then on page 2, there were reports of the picture of a woman being pasted on the sexy picture of a prostitute and used for advertising for clients. On the same page, the suspect that abused a 3-year old girl until she died on 17-12-2012, had his detention extended for another week. He is the boyfriend of the girl's mother.
Page 6 of the same newspapers carried a report of the murder of the owner of a snooker center in Pandan Indah in Ampang. He was attacked and stabbed to death by 2 persons in a carpark. His belongings were not taken and police had ruled out robbery as motive for the killing.
Pages 10 and 11 were dedicated to 2 cases of molest of young girls. In the first case, a 11-year old girl was raped by a neighbour whom she called ' dad ', as she is very close to the man's daughter, in Kulim, Johore. She used to complain of pain in the private parts, but the mother thought it was just menstrual pain. The case was exposed only when the culprit confronted the girl's mother and accused her and her daughter for causing his wife to divorce her. Actually, it was his daughter, after witnessing what her father did, left a letter for her mother telling her about the rape.
The second molest case of minors involved a tuition teacher in Segamat, Johore on 10-12-2012. He is charged for molesting a young student.
The same page also carried a small news item of the burnt body of a young girl found on12-12-2012 by the roadside in Johore Baru.
There was also a small column reporting the release of a knidnap victim in Muar, Johore, after paying a ransom of RM1 million. The victim is a 56- year old man who was reportedly knidnapped on 21-12-2012.
In today's, 10-1-2013, news, there were 2 news reports of criminal activities; one involving an Australian mother who stopped her car at a traffic light junction in Bandar Utama to wait for the traffic light to change. A robber smashed her left car window and grabbed her bag containing valuables. She tried to hold on to the bag, but had to let go when she noticed another motorcycle was approaching fast, obviously with another 2 accomplics. Her bag was passed to the motorcyclist in the second motorcycle.
The other case involved the grabbing of the bag of a pedestrian, a music teacher, in Klang. In this case, she was unlucky to have fallen and hurt herself a bit. She lost a few thousand ringgit.
Off course, there were other crimes reported on the same day, one of which was the kidnap and release of the wife of a housing developer. It was rumoured that a large ransom was paid. 2 of the kidnappers were shot and some of their accomplics were arrested. Yet another involved the case of an estranged mother reporting that her daughters were sexually molested by the father, grandfather, uncle and nephew of the girls. Police are still investigating the case.
In a rare write-up, Utusan Malaysia expressed the people's sentiments well; the people are extremely stressed by the security situation in the country. Guarded communities have sprung up all over the country. Residents say they fear to step out of their house. When they do, they have to look all around them to be sure and when they return, they fear they are being followed. Why do we have to live in fear like this?
Today, 3-3-2013, I am writing about the traumatic experience of a relative whose house had been burgled 3 times so far since coming home from a 2-weeks holiday in Australia. She left for Australia on Chinese new year eve, 9-2-2013 and came back 2 weeks later to find that her house in Petaling Jaya Old Town facing the Chinese Primary School had been totally ranscked. She lost a few thousand ringgit in cash, a few bottles of liquor, a TV set and other valuables. She was in total shock and quickly called her sister-in-law who was staying across the road. She moved at once to stay with her brother and sister-in-law. 2 days later, when she went back to check on the house and to take her other possessions not taken, she got another shock when she discovered the house broken into again. This time the window in one of the rooms was covered with a piece of cloth, probably to prevent the neighbour from looking into the room while the burgler was there. Yesterday, the thief broke into the house a third time, this time there was nothing much to steal and he left behind a crash helmet and 2 knives. It is puzzling why he kept coming back, knowing there was nothing left to steal.
Today, on 23-3-2013, I am writing about what happened 2 days ago on 21-3-2013. When we came home from lunch with some friends, the relative called to say that her house was again broken into and that the thieves were still in the house. We went to her brother's house and found that earlier, when she went back to her own house from her brother's house, she was shocked to find that the lock to her front gate changed. She sensed danger. But she managed to find the key to the lock and quietly sneaked in. When she peeped into the house, she saw the thieves. She quietly withdrew and telephoned her sister-in-law who then called RELA and the police. The police came swiftly, 11 of them in 5 cars and surrounded the house. They managed to catch 2 thieves after a while. She had to follow the police to the police station to have her statements taken. She came back quite late that night. After dinner, when she went back to her house, she was shocked to find some thieves, either the remaining overlooked by the police, or a new group, came and dismantled her pipings. These were placed in a sack and ready to be carted away. She is at her wit's end and does not know what to do.
3-5-2013:
It is sad that we have to be treated to a number of crime reports as we open and read our newspapers each morning. Just over the month of April 2013, there are many reports of shooting murders, mostly involving members of secret societies, though there was a case where a restaurant owner and his friends were shot at when they were having their dinner at the back of the shop after business hours in Johore. According to the owner, he was not involved with any secret societies and he did not have any enemies. It could be a case of mistaken identities, or he may have unintentionally offended some criminals. The most high profile killing happened when Deputy Director-General of Customs was shot and killed at a traffic light junction in the morning as he was being driven to his office in Putrajaya. Could he be a target of revenge, as it was reported that he was a strict officer and carried out his duties diligently? Could it be the work of mafias?
The saddest crime involved the stabbing to death of an elderly lady who was jogging with her daughter at Gasing Hills, Petaling Jaya, in the morning. Her husband and a group of other joggers were far in front when a few youngsters on motorcycles came up to snatch their belongings. The gutsy lady put up a struggle so her daughter could get away to find help when she was stabbed to death by the underaged (legally speaking) criminals. When the daughter returned with help, she was shocked to find her mother in a pool of blood. She died of the stab wounds. So far, the police have arrested a few underaged suspects who were under 18 years old.
Then there was another report of a young graduate of Tuanku Abdul Rahman University who was found dead on the roadside. According to a couple who saw the incident, she was a victim of snatch theft. Two men who got down from a van, snatched her handbag and she fell and hit her head against the stone pavement.
What kind of society are we living in when young people are so happy to kill or hurt others, just for a few ringgit? How did we decend into such deplorable social behaviour? What caused our social breakdown? Have we failed as parents when our young take drugs and to feed their habit, start to rob and steal, to the extent of killing? Has our government failed us? What remedy can we seek to correct this very serious situation?
This week saw a series of fatal shootings, culminating in the murder of the founder of Arab Malaysia Bank. He was shot dead while walking with his wife to the carpark where his driver was waiting. His wife was also shot, but fortunately, she survived. Police have since identified the professional killer who was captured on cctv at the nearby temple. The taxi driver who drove him there and later drove him away had been arrested.
The head of an NGO (MyWatch), Sanjeevan, was shot at a traffic light junction when he stop to light a cigarette, by a motorcyclist passenger in Negeri Sembilan. It was reported that the former IGP had told reporters that Sanjeevan was about to expose some illegal business dealings by some party, and that he had received a message from someone that a gangster was supposed to fire some shots at his house to silence him. Sanjeevan is still in the hospital in a serious condition with a bullet still embedded in his rib at this moment (1-8-2013).
Today is 7-1-2014. Between 1-8-2013 and now, many things had happened and many crimes commited. By the way, Sanjeevan had survived the attack and has recovered.
But the funniest crime involved the theft of cows on 5-1-2014.
According to newspaper reports, a thief used a modified Proton Wira to transport 4 stolen cows in Kulim. The cows are suspected to have been sedated. The cows were so heavy that the engine overheated and broke. The thief ran away, leaving the cows in the car.
9-1-2014:
This is another interesting piece of news involving criminals, this time in the U.S.. The temperatures in the US had been reported to be the coldest in 20 years in US history, dropping to as low as -20 degrees C, as cold as in the artic. A prisoner in Kentucky who had just made an escape from prison had voluntarily returned to the prison because he could not stand the cold conditions outside.
10-1-2014:
Today, 10-1-2014, Sanjeevan again appeared in today's news (Sinchew Daily). He claimed that he had received a message from someone who threatened to kill him if he did not lay off from pursuing a certain matter, just like what he experienced before he was shot in Negri Sembilan. He had made a police report, and said he would not back out from what he was doing.
6-8-2014:
This is a very sad day for Malaysia. In the early hours of this morning, 2 British trainee doctors from Newcastle University, were killed in a Kuching bar. What has became of the people in the country? Why do we have to kill? Let us pray the Malaysian police can change the present landscape. It is no longer a perception. Ask anyone in the country.
