SUPP women central is disappointed as the three-judge panel unanimously discharged and acquitted a 60 years-old\u00a0 man who raped and impregnated a minor. The case took three long years, yet the perpetrator walked free at the end.<\/p>\n
Section 375 of the Penal Code defines rape as forcefully inserting the\u00a0male penis into the body of the female victim without the victim’s consent. The accused had inserted his semen smeared finger into the victim’s virginal. He walked free because the finger is not penis, therefore his act can not be constituted as rape; although DNA test\u00a0confirmed the accused as the father of the victim’s child. Since Malaysia’s law does not allow one to sue the same accused twice with similar conviction, the accused is now a free man who do not have to be responsible for his act.<\/p>\n
SUPP women central chief Datin Jennifer expressed great concern over such restrictive definition of rape in Malaysia’s law. Due to loopholes in laws, rapists walked free in countries such as India and Bangladesh. The\u00a0inadequate laws and loopholes had caused the increase of crime rate in\u00a0these countries and crippled their economy development.<\/p>\n
“How can our country achieve the vision of 2020 if the laws are unable\u00a0to protect the younger generation who is the backbone of this\u00a0country’s future and development? It will be impossible to achieve\u00a0developed nation status if our laws are unable to keep up with the\u00a0need of present time.” Stressed Datin Jennifer.<\/p>\n
Datin Jennifer urged the Government to amend obsolete laws as soon\u00a0as possible. Only\u00a0 when the safety of each individual is safeguarded\u00a0can we have a developed, stabilised and peaceful nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SUPP women central is disappointed as the three-judge panel unanimously discharged and acquitted a 60 years-old\u00a0 man who raped and impregnated a minor. The case took three long years, yet the perpetrator walked free at the end. Section 375 of the Penal Code defines rape as forcefully inserting the\u00a0male penis into the body of the female victim without the victim’s consent. The accused had inserted his semen smeared finger into the victim’s virginal. He walked free because the finger is not penis, therefore his act can not be constituted asRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6572,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions\/6572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}