Better justice for children

THE recent decision of the Court of Appeal to uphold the acquittal of a man previously convicted of raping a child is indeed a sad one for the child, her family, the community and Malaysian society at large.

The family’s nightmare, and the long-drawn five-year ordeal which followed, began in 2008 when their four-year-old started revealing details of a series of sexual assaults she had undergone in the kindergarten she attended, after it was discovered that she was suffering from a sexually transmitted infection.