‘Beware the guy who says you’re his little sister’

Malaysian Mental Health Association deputy president Datuk Dr Andrew Mohanraj says medicine is a vocation and not just an occupation, and that parents need to realise not every one is cut out to become a doctor before forcing the profession onto their children.

PETALING JAYA: An adult inappropriately messaging or calling a child constitutes child grooming, say psychiatrists.

Psychiatrist and former Malay­sian Psychiatric Association president Dr Abdul Kadir Abu Bakar said the perpetrator usually starts “hunting” for a victim by playing the role of an “elder brother”.