‘Back Bills to protect kids’


GOVERNMENT and Opposition lawmakers must support amendments to criminalise online sextortion and livestreaming sex involving children, says Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said.

The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reforms) said the amendments to the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017 will be tabled for second reading in Parliament tomorrow.

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