NGO: Children’s testimony not the same as adults


GEORGE TOWN: The Women's Centre for Change (WCC) has called on the courts to give greater consideration to the testimony of child witnesses.

WCC executive director Loh Cheng Kooi said the same standards could not be applied to a child witness as an adult.

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