Protecting children with disabilities

For use with Tan Yi Liangs column, ffyv240817

CHILDREN. As of late, we can’t deny that they’ve been the target of some really sick stuff. We only have to look back to last week to see the latest case: a temporary teacher at a vernacular school was charged last Thursday with committing sexual physical contact on a nine-year-old male pupil.

And if we go back two weeks to Aug 9, I’m pretty sure that many of you reading this can remember that it took two days – starting from Aug 9 – to read all the charges against the unit trust agent who was charged with 599 counts of sodomising his teenage daughter, one count of rape and 30 counts of committing physical sexual assault without intercourse on the girl since she was 13.