Jahara: Marriage may be an optionin special cases of statutory rape


xxxxx: Opposition leader Dato’ Jahara Hamid hold press conference at the Penang state assembly. // CHARLES MARIASOOSAY/ The Star/17/November 2016.

GEORGE TOWN: There may be exceptional and rare cases where marriage needs to be considered between young people having consensual sex, said state Opposition Leader Datuk Jahara Hamid (pic).

“I am a person on the ground. I have seen from my own experience, 14-year-old girls going out with their boyfriends. They have sex and get pregnant.

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