US gynaecologist gets 20 years for sexually abusing patients
NEW YORK: A Manhattan judge on Tuesday sentenced a “prolific, heinous and predatory” ex-Columbia University gynecologist, Robert Hadden, to 20 years in federal prison, doling out the maximum justice decades after he began abusing his patients and seven years after he avoided jail time, reported German news agency (dpa). Citing Hadden’s “out of control” and “depraved” […]
Civil servant pleads not guilty of sexual abuse
KUCHING: A civil servant pleaded not guilty today in the Sessions Court here to the accusation of sexually abusing a girl in an event last year in which the girl’s father sold the child for the purpose of sexual activity. The 45-year-old accused, a staff member at a Public Institution of Higher Education (IPTA), confessed […]
Iban book aims to prevent child sexual abuse
KUCHING: Women’s Centre for Change Penang (WCC) recently launched a digital book in the Iban language that outlines how child sexual abuse (CSA) can affect any child including those with disabilities. According to WCC, the 37-page digital book entitled “Sara Madah “Enggai” (Sara Says “No”) is about a nine-year-old girl named Sara who is diagnosed with […]
Come forward, child sexual abuse victims urged
KUCHING: Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Ministry has appealed to victims of child sexual abuse to come forward and share their stories. Its minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah said this was important to ensure more perpetrators could be prosecuted. “Tragically, this crime is more common than the public realise and we need […]
Coming to grips with domestic violence
BY FATIN NABIHAH MARZUKI & AMIRIL MUTTAQIEN MEKETAR KUALA LUMPUR: Hidayah (not her real name) feels her life is a waking nightmare. Her husband is in Labuan and she and her son have been stuck in her parents’ house in Seremban ever since the movement control order was enforced in March. Staying under the same […]
Monsters Among Us
It is terrifying to note that regardless of how much we try to protect our children, it will never 100 percent safe for them. With harrowing stories of sexual abuse lurking amongst children, Firzana Redzuan promised that she will not rest as long as the social issue exist. On a mission to protect our children […]
