The underaged girl who lied about her own abduction and the 16-year-old accused appearing in the juvenile court in Klang.
KLANG: The teenager who faked her own kidnapping has been ordered to
undergo a three-year rehabilitation programme at the welfare
department’s Sekolah Tunas Bakti by the juvenile court here.
Her admission into the reformatory, under Section 91 (B) of the Child
Act, will take effect from the date she was detained two days after
faking her kidnapping.
The 14-year-old girl’s parents were also ordered by magistrate Nor
Asma Ahmad to visit her once a month at the school failing which they
can be fined up to RM5,000 under Section 93 (1) (d) of the Child Act.
According to DPP Syed Farid Syed Ali, who spoke to reporters after the
closed door proceedings ended, parental neglect was found to be one of
the factors behind the girl’s conduct.
“It was found that the parents had failed to give the child sufficient
attention and what had happened wasn’t wholly her fault,’’ he added.
He also said the prosecution hoped the girl would receive the help she
needs at Sekolah Tunas Bakti and that the public should not judge her
too harshly.
“She is young and has made a mistake. The prosecution, too, wants her
to have a good future,’’ he said.
The girl, who had wanted to spend time with her 19-year-old boyfriend
Gan Chin Teck, lied in a phone call to her foster sister on Dec 29
that she had been abducted in Bandar Sultan Suleiman two days earlier.
She told her foster sister that two men in a white van had abducted
her and were holding her captive.
However, police found her in her boyfriend’s car at a petrol station
in Kanchong Darat, Banting on New Year’s Eve and learnt that she had
been staying with the youth and a 45-year-old man in Bandar Sungei
Emas also in Banting.
The girl then confessed that she had faked her kidnapping because she
wanted to spend time with her boyfriend whom she had met just a month
prior to the incident.
Meanwhile, ironsmith Gan, who was charged under Section 363 of the
Penal Code on Jan 6, for abducting a minor and taking her away without
parental permission, had pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Nor Asma had set bail at RM5, 000 with one surety for Gan pending
continuance of the case against him.
It was also learnt that the girl’s 16-year-old friend, who had been
charged under Section 376 (1) of the Penal Code for raping her in
December 2014, had been sent to the Henry Gurney School in Malacca.
The court had also ordered the boy’s parents to visit him there once a
month, failing which they can be fined up to RM5, 000 under Section 93
(1) (d) of the Child Act.
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Just RM5 per month.
