‘Teacher, there’s a snake in my bag’

Unexpected find: The snake (circled) lying beside a pile of textbooks.

Compiled by BEH YUEN HUI, CRYSTAL CHIAM SHIYING and R. Aravinthan

A TEACHER thought that her primary school pupil was just playing the fool when he told her that there was a snake in his schoolbag.

China Press reported that the teacher found the snake alive upon checking the boy’s bag at the school in Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur.

The daily carried a photograph of the snake lying beside a pile of textbooks and the bag, which has since gone viral on social media.

Speculation on social media was rife that the snake could have hidden inside the bag to avoid the heat outside.

> Guang Ming Daily reported that a 25-year-old Indonesian woman had been allegedly sexually abused by her employer’s 68-year-old father since four years ago.

The last time she was allegedly raped was on Tuesday.

The woman, one of the two Indonesian domestic helpers of the family in Subang Jaya, told police that the man started to rape her since her fifth day of work in September 2012.

She, however, said she was too afraid to lodge a police report as the man had recorded some of the rapes and took nude photographs of her, which he used to blackmail her.

She claimed that she could not bear the abuse anymore after the incident on Tuesday and asked the other maid to drop a written note at a nearby mosque to ask for help when the latter went out for morning exercise.

A mosque worker lodged a police report after getting the written note and police subsequently arrested the man.

The other maid, aged 22, claimed that the man had also attempted to rape her but backed off after she shouted at him and threatened to inform her employer.

> The daily also reported that two car thieves took only 12 minutes to steal a luxury multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) from a house in Sungai Bakap, Penang.

Kee Zhen Chuan found his white Toyota Vellfire missing from the porch of his double-storey house at about 5am on Thursday.

“I checked the footage of the CCTVs installed at my neighbour’s house and found out that the culprits took only 12 minutes to steal my car.

“They were very professional. They were so quiet throughout the process of deactivating my electronic gate system to open the gate and drive away my car,” he said.

Found in translation is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.