Most minor rape victims ‘agree to sex with perpetrators’
MALACCA: In most rape cases involving minors, the victims agreed to have sex with their perpetrators.
This includes a case which happened at a secondary school in Jasin near here last September, in which a Form One girl was allegedly raped by two seniors, aged 14 and 15, at the school’s storeroom.
State Criminal Investigation Department chief Assistant Commissioner Kamaluddin Kassim, however, warned that sexual intercourse with a girl under 16 is regarded by law as statutory rape, with or without consent.
He said police had completed their investigation into the case, which took place at the school about 2.45pm on Sept 27, and submitted the investigation papers to the deputy public prosecutor’s office.
“The police solved almost 99 per cent of rape cases reported in the state. This is due to the fact that most of the offenders are known to the victims,” he said here yesterday.
He, however, did not disclose the number of rape cases which had been reported in the state.
The two schoolboys had reportedly undressed the 13-year-old girl and raped her in the storeroom but fled when they were spotted by an administrative staff.
semiwooden home with its traditional architecture and colourful ornamental trees in Mata Ayer, Kangar. (Inset) An antique iron for silk on display in Jusoh’s home. Pix by Hafizudin Mohd Safar
In another unrelated case, Kamaluddin said they were looking into the authenticity of a claim by a teenage girl who claimed she was molested by her stepfather at an apartment here in April last year.
“Investigation revealed that the girl’s mother had persuaded her to lodge the report against her former husband as revenge,” he said, adding that the 56-year-old man from Muar, Johor, was a “Datuk”.
The girl’s mother and stepfather had divorced in August.