PETALING JAYA: The authorities and the public should acknowledge that violent crime involving youth and teenagers is on the rise, said Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) vice-chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.
“We have to get to the root of the problem ... what compelled these young ones to commit such crime, especially rape,” he said yesterday in response to the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl by some 30 men in Kelantan – a case he described as heinous and barbaric.
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