As reported by national news agency Bernama yesterday, Noor Afizal Azizan escaped jail when the Appeallate Court allowed his appeal to restore the decision of a Sessions Court which bound him over for good behaviour for five years, in a sum of RM25,000 for statutory rape.
The three-member bench led by Court of Appeal president Raus Md Sharif unanimously set aside the five-year jail term imposed on Noor Afizal by the Malacca High Court in allowing the prosecution's appeal for an enhanced sentence.
Raus, in his decision, agreed with counsel Hisyam The Poh Teik that public interest would not be served if Noor Afizal was sent to jail as he had abright future.
He is not even named in this Gemilang 2010 squad! Maybe his is just tapping on the door!
Bright future as defined by law or perception. We are told repeatedly that nobody is above the LAW. But this is Bolehland. YES!
What of the girl’s future?
What of the girl’s future?
This reminded me of what did happen to Guan Eng when he defended a young maiden also from Malacca. Dang!
The court failed to define “good behavior”….any suggestions?
MP Charles Santiago: A Rapist is scot free, this is shocking
She was 13. An 18-year-old man had sex with her. According to the Penal Code, sex with an underaged girl is statutory rape. He pleaded guilty.
Today he is free. All the sportsman, now 21, has to do is fork out RM25,000 and be on his best behaviour for the next five years.
This is the brief of a statutory rape case with an outrageous ruling.
Now, let’s get to the details.
Now, let’s get to the details.The accused person is national tenpin bowling ace Noor Afizal Azizan (right).
Taking into account that he is a national champion, the Court of Appeal ruled that a jail term is not in the public interest as Noor Afizal has a promising future.
This is shocking. When the case was first heard in the Sessions Court, the judge ruled that Noor Afizal must be bound by a five-year term for good behaviour and slapped a penalty of RM25,000 on him. But he also said that it was a consensual act.
Sex with a 13-year-old is consensual? Really? Bollocks. Whatever happened to going by the law? When the prosecution appealed the case, the High Court ruled that Noor Afizal serve a five-year jail term. But semblance of justice for the victim, a child, remains elusive with the recent ruling.
It’s difficult to comprehend the judgment, which can only be described as reckless.
Child’s trauma of no account
It has failed to take into account the abuse endured by the victim, the emotional, mental and physical well-being, not to mention a crushed future. In short, the accused person has robbed the child of her childhood. I can only imagine her trauma.
On a deeper level, the ruling reflects the state of judiciary in the country, which seem to signal that rapists can have a “Get out of Jail Free” token if they hold an important position in the society, have a great future, are famous and with a fat bank balance.
The judgment has endorsed rape and set a grotesque precedence. It has also clearly shown that the country’s judicial system is incapable of delivering justice to victims, especially children.
What kind of a society are we becoming? What kind of values are we teaching our younger generation? We live in an environment where sex between consenting adults are open to moral policing. We live in a society that is quick to condemn homosexuality and same-sex marriage.
What do we have to say about this ruling? A ruling which has allowed a rapist to walk the streets free?
I call upon child rights advocates, human rights organisations, civil society members, media workers, lawmakers, senators and the public to denounce this judgment.
In coming together, we bring with us the hope that the child victim gets justice at the Federal Court. I pledge solidarity with the victim’s family throughout this ordeal.
Do You Live in a Rapist-Friendly State like Malacca ?
Is a Sexting Spouse Cheating on You?Relationship Infidelity and the Real Villain Behind It
Hitting the lottery once in a lifetime will never happen to most of us, butn just hit the criminal justice system jackpot, not once, not twice, but three times. DNA evidence has linked him to three sexual assaults, but lucky old Brian will soon be released from prison without ever serving a single day for any of the assaults in question.
So is Brian Brockington just one of the "luckiest" men alive? Perhaps. But he had some help. Continuing the lotto metaphor, you could say the powers that be screwed up and now all of us have to pay up, starting with the women DNA evidence links him to assaulting. Or in casino terms one might say the slot machines are severely broken and those in charge of the house haven't made repairing them a priority. As a result we'll likely see a lot more Brian Brockingtons winning the criminal lotto in coming years. Allow me to explain related articles.
As reported in the New York Daily News:
Brockington, 35, was arrested on rape charges in 2007 and his cousin Rodney Howard, 36, was arrested two years later after their DNA matched evidence from a 1993 gun-point attack on a 29-year-old woman. But because of a police backlog, the DNA evidence from the crime wasn't processed for nearly a decade -- and prosecutors filed charges a day after the crime's 10-year statute of limitations expired, said Steven Reed, spokesman for the Bronx DA. The DA's office realized their error only after the cousins were arrested -- and prosecutors were forced to drop the rape charges.
Ghosts do not die. That is the power of a phantom. You can bury of the cases to the chanting of the prosecutor's fraudulent funeral rites, but its restless spirit keeps rattling through the haunted house of the UMNO Party's premier family. The latest rattle, in which the shocking revelations that Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor were involved in hatching sodomy accusations against Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim Ghani Patail has the chance to go down in his nation's history as either a colossal waste of a promise, or as the exorcist who rid Malaysia of the ghost of all the ghost ., the then chief minister of Malacca, Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik, was reported to have raped a 15-year-old schoolgirl (under Malaysian law, sex with a minor constitutes statutory rape). Lim Guan Eng, currently the chief minister of Penang and the then MP for Kota Melaka, spoke out against the rape of a minor after the girl’s .grandmother-cum-guardian, who was also Lim’s constituent, turned to him for help.However, far from deserving justice, both Lim and the schoolgirl received their “dues”. Lim was jailed for three years for speaking up against the rape while the girl was given three years “protective custody”. As for Rahim, because of the rape and pending corruption charges, he was forced to resign, after a 12-year stint as Malacca’s chief minister.But the judiciary saw Rahim escape punishment for a crime committed; this came about after the public prosecutor withdrew the charge citing lack of evidence. The corruption charges against Rahim were also dropped.The travesty of justice is such that on Feb 28, 1995, Lim was thrown into jail after he was charged under the Sedition Act for prompting “disaffection with the administration of Malaysia”.On March 17 the same year, he was slapped with another charge under the Printing Presses and Publications Act for “maliciously printing” a pamphlet containing “false information”, specifically that Lim had used the term “imprisoned victim” to describe the schoolgirl who was raped.As a result of his trying to seek justice for the rape survivor, Lim was barred from holding public office for five years, making him ineligible to contest in the 2004 general election.As for the underage rape survivor, she was initially detained for 10 years without parental consent. She was subsequently sentenced to three years “protective custody” in a house for “wayward girls”. During Lim’s trial, the girl gave evidence that she had sex with a minister.With such lecherous politicians in our midst, the safety of girls and women – be they our sisters, daughters, mothers and foreign female workers – is at risk. There is no telling which politician is waiting to sexually assault the girls and women in this country. What is annoying is the fact that the crime is easily dismissed by threatening and buying the silence of the victim.In Rais’ case, if the rape had never taken place as he claimed, then what made his domestic helper of eight years to suddenly pack her bags and leave for home in Indonesia? If he has been such a kind and generous man as his former domestic helper claimed when retracting her allegation of rape, the question of her quitting her job would not arise. There is no doubt something is amiss here, no matter how much Rais denies it.In the case of Rahim, he was never convicted and continues to enjoy life while Lim spent three years in jail and the the rape survivor was sentenced to three years in a house for “wayward girls”. What wrong did the girl do to end up in a house for wayward girls while the perpetrator, Rahim, walked a free man? Where was justice when it was desperately needed?
The public editor of the New York Times, Arthur Brisbane, sided with readers whoexpressed outrage over a story in the paper about a brutal gang rape in Texas.The story, which was published last Tuesday, focused on the rape of an 11-year-old girl by 18 boys and men in Cleveland, Texas. But critics excoriated the Times for, in their view, blaming the girl for the attack.In a blog post on Friday, Brisbane said he agreed."My assessment is that the outrage is understandable," he wrote. "The story dealt with a hideous crime but addressed concerns about the ruined lives of the perpetrators without acknowledging the obvious: concern for the victim."Brisbane pointed to the sections that drew the most ire, where residents were quoted expressing worry about the burden the men will have to carry because of their crimes, and where the girl was described as often "dressed older than her age, wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s.""If indeed that is the only sentiment to be found in this community - and I find that very hard to believe - it becomes important to report on that as well by seeking out voices of professional authorities or dissenting community members who will at least address, and not ignore, the plight of the young girl involved," Brisbane wrote.The Times initially defended the story in a statement, saying the writer of the article, James C. McKinley, was merely reporting what he had been told. But the paper's standards editor, Phillip Corbett, seemed to walk back that defense in an interview with Brisbane, saying that the Times "could have done more to provide more context" to stress the fact that the victim was not being blamed.
INVESTIGATION PAPERS ON SOI LEK’S SEX VIDEO TO BE SENT TO AG
KUALA LUMPUR – The investigation papers on the distribution of the sex video involving MCA President Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek will be submitted to the Attorney-General’s Chambers soon.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said Dr Chua lodged a police report after being informed by a colleague on the distribution of envelopes containing two DVDs in several areas in Batu Pahat, Johor, which was intended to smear his image.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said Dr Chua lodged a police report after being informed by a colleague on the distribution of envelopes containing two DVDs in several areas in Batu Pahat, Johor, which was intended to smear his image.
Following the report, police conducted an investigation and the investigation papers submitted to the Attorney-General’s Chambers, before the Attorney-General ordered for further investigation, he said in a written reply to a question by Hee Loy Sian (PKR-Petaling Jaya Selatan) in Parliament Tuesday.
Hee wanted to know the rationale Dr Chua was not charged in court.
Hishammuddin said the case was investigated under Section 292/509 of the Penal Code.
In January 2008, Dr Chua resigned from his cabinet post and as MCA vice-president after admitting that the man in the sex video was him.
e-Patriarchy
Does the internet promote misogynistic behaviour?
The internet offers anonymity, but it may not be a safe haven for women. A University of Maryland study found that when the gender of an online username looks female, they are 25 times more likely to experience harassment. A few have even described it as a “gang-rape” like mentality when referring to the extreme levels of online misogyny.
Some women have responded by creating women-friendly online enclaves and encouraging others to write or video blog about online harassment. Is it simply the anonymity that allows men to take such liberties or is it an extension of offline sentiment?
In this episode of The Stream, we speak to Helen Lewis (@helenlewis), deputy editor of the New Statesman, and Alice Marwick (@alicetiara), Assistant Professor at Fordham University. Members of the Stream community also join the discussion via Google+ hangout.
What do you think? Does the internet promote misogynistic behaviour? Send us your thoughts and comments on Facebook or Twitter using #AJStream.
Why Are UMNO Leaders like Najib,Ahmad Mazlan Tamby peniskechik Addicted to Sex? Engaged in unsavory sexual behavior.fucking woman with taxpayer money
A religious spokesman of the Sarawak government today rejected the view of the Obedient Wives' Club that husbands stray mainly because their spouses have failed to keep them sexually satisfied.
State Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister's Office Datuk Daud Abdul Rahman said that a marriage could suffer for many reasons.
"Blaming the performance of wives in the bedroom is totally unfair," he told reporters after chairing a meeting on the national Quran recital competition to be held here from June 13 to 17.
"No need for OWC to be here because (here we believe that) marriage is a collective responsibility and not up to certain individuals," Daud added.
Daud was commenting on a statement by OWC international vice-president Dr Rohaya Mohamed on Saturday that a wife must obey and serve her husband like "a first-class prostitute.
Another celebrity has been discovered engaged in unsavory sexual behavior. This time it's U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner. In recent memory, it's been Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods, John Edwards and more. Not long ago, it was a president nearly impeached. The question should not be: Why do they do it? They question should be: Why do we engage in sexual behaviors that are painful, unsatisfying, risky or humiliating, and how can we help ourselves and others achieve the well-being and wholeness that will render such behaviors obsolete?
First, let's be honest. Many act stunned that famous men take such perilous actions. Having worked hard all their lives to achieve a certain level of skill or stature, why would prominent men be compelled to risk it all with behaviors almost certain to be revealed, behaviors that we condemn? While that's an interesting question, isn't it more significant that so many are condemning celebrities for behaving in ways considered more acceptable when practiced by ordinary folk? Take any group of people, for example, and ask them privately: Have you had an affair? Have you lied to your spouse? Have you ever had an "illegitimate" child? Have you engaged in online sexual activity or phone sex? Have you hired prostitutes or strippers privately or in business environments? Have you used pornography or peep shows? Have you ever masturbated in risky situations?
As a counselor for 30 years, I am very familiar with the sexual behaviors of men and women, and more often than we like to admit, the behavior we engage in is considered "unsavory." Many married men are having sex with women who aren't their wives, and many women are having sex with these men, most often with their full knowledge of the man's marital status. Married women do the same. Someone is buying all those sex magazines and videos, and someone is posing for them. Someone is using the online sex sites. Someone is consuming child pornography. Someone is faking orgasm (or grinning and bearing it, hoping that it will soon be over).
Who are the people doing these behaviors? It's us. So why are we so shocked to discover our "leaders" doing the same thing?
How little loved and fulfilled we must feel. How confused we must be by sex drives that seem to have their own energy. How out-of-control we must feel when our drives and pain trump our common sense. How much guilt we must suffer because we know what we are doing will hurt ourselves and others. Why do we engage in these practices?
Because we are empty inside and are trying to fill ourselves up.
Whether we are consuming sugar, drugs, power, people, things or sex, we are addicted to the "fix," and what we are attempting to fix is ourselves and our lack of wholeness. Infidelity is often a fix for the pain of un-fulfilling relationships; the use of pornography and prostitution, for feeling unwanted; the abuse of children, for feeling powerless and unable to function successfully in a relationship of equality. Masturbation or unconscious sex within relationships is often a fix for feelings of anxiety and emptiness.
Let us stop condemning others and let us start understanding -- not just others, but ourselves. What do we need in order to free ourselves from addictive sexual behaviors? How can we develop the wholeness and well-being that allow us to be in relationships of love and connection, or to live in peace with ourselves if we have no partners? How do we change our relationship to sex itself?
Here's a way: By experiencing ourselves as two whole beings having a sacred union with one another; experiencing ourselves as one whole being having a sacred union with ourselves. Many of us have settled for less, but we don't need to. We can:
• Connect our sexuality with our spirituality • Dedicate ourselves to being honest and open in our relationships, so that we can experience true intimacy and trust.
Sexuality binds on the physical plane what is already bound on the spiritual plane. So these planes must be integrated in order for us to have healthy, satisfying and blissful sexual experiences with ourselves or one another. In our intimate relationships, we crave oneness, and integrating our sexuality and spirituality allows us to achieve that.
In addition, we need trust. The key to deeply fulfilling sexual relating is relaxation, and for this to be present, our relationship to ourselves and our partners must be fully intimate, honest and open. Each of us must know that our most tender feelings will be respected, that we are not being used, and that we don't need to be hurt to please.
When I was a young woman, I engaged in promiscuous behavior. I got drunk and looked for love in the all the wrong places. Because of this experience, I know the pain and desperation that underlies what we judge as "unsavory" sexual behaviors.
But suppose we could, in fact, have love? Suppose we were in relationships in which we felt intimate and safe? Suppose we could love ourselves when we were unpartnered? Suppose we could overcome the feelings of desperation, loneliness and rejection that often accompany being alone? Suppose we were willing to leave relationships that weren't working, instead of hanging in there for comfort or security, while "stepping out" for excitement, affection or satisfaction? Suppose we were willing to become fully vulnerable, accountable and willing to heal our psychological wounds, in order to be available for relating? Suppose we were, therefore, capable of co-creating partnerships supporting deeper levels of closeness? Suppose our partners were available, too, for this kind of relating? Would we be skulking around the Internet, looked for illusions? Would we roughly touch ourselves in the dark in an effort to relieve ourselves from the aching pain of aloneness? Would we be drinking, or smoking marijuana or using drugs to "make love?"
When I see people like John Edwards, my heart cries for both him and his deceased wife. What was the pain in him that drove him to infidelity? What was the pain inside my former husband, who did the same to me? Why are we so judgmental? Why, instead, are we not compassionate? If we are to end the behaviors that we condemn, we need to be honest about ourselves and support one another to heal. Otherwise, we just judge ourselves and one another, and nothing changes.
Let's get beyond shame and hidden pathology. Let's have compassion and start looking for solutions to the distortion of our sexuality. Let's get the help we need to heal, and let's get beyond the separation of sex and spirituality. We all need to experience the sacredness of every aspect of our lives. We all need to free ourselves to love. And we all need to support one another when we stray from that goal.
Let's stop acting shocked, and let's get shocked into action.
The whole Altantuya episode has taken a new twist after French investigators revealed that a third person had travelled with Razak Baginda and the sultry Mongolian translator during their trips overseas to negotiate in the sprawling Malaysian submarines acquisition.
Although, there is widespread speculation the third person was Najib Razak, who was then Defence Minister, one must not jump the gun and disregard other possibilities.
Until and when the French investigators releases the name of the third individual, one must it is not Najib. Yet, this does not exclude Najib from the list nor preclude the fact that he actually has the highest probability of being Mr X - or in Sodomy II terms, the 'Male Y'.
Najib has repeatedly denied involvement with Altantuya Shaaribuu, whom it is believed was his former mistress before he passed her over to his best friend Razak Baginda. Under enormous pressure from UMNO and with an eye to the coveted premiership, Najib who was by then also DPM, took an oath on the Quran that he never knew her.
Yet, would it have been possible for Najib not to have known Altantuya?
What the French probe fished out
As Defence Minister, Najib would have full knowledge of all things pertaining to the purchase of substantial equipment. A purchase this large and complicated and involving the use of billions of ringgit of public money would require Najib’s full attention.
All details would have made its way onto his desk. And Altantuya's role was not nitty-gritty. She would have played an active role because she translated for Baginda, his friend who was looking out for him in the acquisition.
The French trial which is due to start soon against DCN. The seller of the 2 Scorpene and one Agosta submarines will be grilled and who they met and dealt with is bound to come out. Sooner or later, what the French probe fished out will become public and those who have been lied to should rightfully be very angry and demand the sternest action.
Secondly, Razak Baginda has already confessed Altantuya had been his lover. Again, it seems impossible for Najib not to know who was keeping company with his best friend. Especially, with such a huge business transaction on the table, would Najib not keep tabs? Would not his own intelligence alert him to Baginda’s movements? Would not the Malaysian Ministry of Defence or Special Branch have done a background check on Altantuya?
Therefore, chances are high Altantuya was known to Najib, casually or not is open to debate, but she was in all likelihood known to him.
Whether the mystery man or the third man or the missing link is indeed Najib is a different question. It is also besides the point because one way or another Najib would have been involved in it all.
The difference is that if it is proven by passport or airline records, then it is all the more embarrassing for Najib. He would be publicly found out in a lie that most Malaysians already suspect him of.
It will also open the door for his enemies - not from the Opposition - but from his own UMNO party to topple him.
Truth
The submarines negotiation was between the government of Malaysia and French arms dealer. Whoever that took part in the negotiation exercise would have to be cleared by the Ministery of Defence and Najib as its Minister.
Altantuya may not have been translator for the government and only for Baginda but she was part of the sprawling negotiations which also included the 114 million euros support services deal for Perimekar, which is the firm linked to Baginda.
It would have been pure negligence on Najib’s part if he did not know who were the various parties forming the integral structure of the 1 billion euros acquisition.
Following the controversy, there were calls for an independent inquiry into the cost of the submarines and Najib's role in it. He had been accused of receiving kickbacks as well as involvment in the Altantuya death.
If the inquiry had been allowed, 'sensitive' details would have been exposed. So perhaps the oath-taking was an easy way out for Najib to downplay the accusations. Just like Sodomy II's Saiful and Datuk T's Eskay had tried to do by swearing on the Quran.
Through it all, the government of Malaysia has kept silent. In their silence, they were actually abetting a crime against the rakyat (populace).
But what goes around, comes around. If guilty, the paper trail will lead back to Najib regardless of how he wants to evade it. Not only will Najib be caught out in a lie but so too will the BN coalition, which was the government of the day.
No one, no matter how omnipotent, can live a lie forever. Like pus, the truth always has a way of coming out. No matter how one hides it.
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