KUCHING: Prompt legal reform, including amending the Penal Code’s definition of rape, is needed to better protect children, said the Sarawak Women for Women Society (SWWS).
Welcoming the determination of Welfare, Women and Community Wellbeing Minister Datuk Fatimah Abdullah to close the loophole in the law regarding “finger rape”, SWWS, nevertheless, expressed concern about the Attorney-General Department’s reply to her that the call for a wider definition of rape would be accommodated within the Child (Amendment) Act.
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