What was he really thinking of?

I don't know what to say to this Debtor who offers his daughter to be raped to offset his loan. Or for that matter, to the loan shark who raped the girl as well as the failings of the institutions in Malaysia.

Financial institutions give loans to all those richs to make them richer, while helping oout the banks to recover their investments, but real needy individuals seldom are given a chance to get any small loans. If only that chap were to be provided a soft loan, a child could have escaped rape, as well as the trauma of an un-wanted pregnancy!

Then again, loan sharks should be shot for taking advantages of those needy people.

The government has indeed failed when people have to resort to taking loans from sharks and all. No elaboration needed, you know what I mean, unless, you're from Mars!


The Star Online > Nation

Wednesday June 15, 2005
Debtor offers daughter
Other News & Views
Compiled by TAN SIN CHOW, DALILAH IBRAHIM and T. PERIASAMY

A MAN in Kota Baru had offered his 15-year-old daughter to a loan shark in 2003 to offset a RM7,500 debt, Sin Chew Daily reported.

The loan shark raped the girl at a house after spiking her drink. He then paid her RM500 for her silence.

The girl became pregnant and gave birth in July last year, but the rape only came to light last month.

The girl, who had been staying with her mother in Penang, related the incident at a press conference organised by the MCA Complaints Bureau.

Police arrested the 38-year-old loan shark in Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan, last week. He is now under remand in Kelantan.

China Press reported that in Johor Baru, a snatch thief slashed his victim with a parang when she put up a fight.

The woman was by the roadside when one of two men on a motorcycle grabbed her handbag.

During the scuffle, the man whipped out the parang and attacked her. The woman lost her handbag and mobile phone.

Nanyang Siang Pau quoted Deputy Education Minister Datuk Hon Choon Kim as saying that the Government had approved RM47mil for the expansion or relocation of 44 Chinese primary schools.

With this exercise, an additional 12,000 places would be created for students in Chinese schools.


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