{"id":8862,"date":"2014-06-03T15:38:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T07:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=8862"},"modified":"2014-06-03T15:38:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T07:38:48","slug":"increasing-rape-cases-must-be-addressed-by-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/increasing-rape-cases-must-be-addressed-by-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing rape cases must be addressed by all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Yeo Bee Yin, Damansara Utama State Assemblywoman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are deeply saddened by the news of a 15 year-old teenage girl who was gang-raped by 38 men in Ketereh, Kelantan on 20 May 2014. Such a tragic case sends shiver down the spines of many Malaysian women, who may also be subjected to similar violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We urge the authorities to go all out to bring the inhumane perpetrators of this case to justice according to the laws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This event of sexual violence against a minor also reminds us of the worrying trend of increasing violence against children and women in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Department of Social Welfare, the cases of child abuse have increased from 2,789 in 2009 to 3,428 in 2011 to 3831 in 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As for rape cases, Women Aid Organization statistics has shown that although rape cases has dropped slightly in 2012 from its peak in 2009, it has doubled in just a decade, from 1479 in 2003 to 2998 in 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, an average of 8 girls are raped every day in Malaysia. This is not just a number. This number represents precious daughters and wives or wives-to-be, who may face a lifelong battle against the trauma of being raped. These women are not the only victims, their families will also be affected by such tragedy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We hope that the Minister of Women, Family and Community Development, Dato&#8217; Rohani Abdul Karim, would step forward with a strategic plan to overcome such a worrying trend in child abuse and rape in terms of prevention, intervention, enforcement and rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are also ready to work with relevant NGOs and the government to contribute our part in saving our children and women from devastating physical and emotional violence and sexual abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yeo Bee Yin, Damansara Utama State Assemblywoman We are deeply saddened by the news of a 15 year-old teenage girl who was gang-raped by 38 men in Ketereh, Kelantan on 20 May 2014. Such a tragic case sends shiver down the spines of many Malaysian women, who may also be subjected to similar violence. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8863,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions\/8863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}