AS a Child Court Advisor, I ask that we act with seriousness and speed with regard to provisions of the Child Act 2001 to prevent abuse that is on the rise.

Why such disregard for the Act which requires family members, doctors and child care providers to report any child abuse?

Why are we so lax on this law when failure to report can land offenders a RM5,000 fine or not more than two years in jail, or both?

However, teachers, councillors and members of the public should also report despite them not being required by law to do so.

PETALING JAYA: “He killed my baby because he was jealous... jealous he didn’t have a child of his own,” said grieving father S. Karigalan, 42, as he spoke of the brutal murder of 18-month-old K. Haresvarran.

The boy had been severely beaten, kicked and his liver had burst, causing  his death on Tuesday night.

KUALA LUMPUR:Police have detained a 31-year-old Filipino maid for allegedly abusing an 11-month-old boy in Damansara here on Friday.

Selangor CID deputy chief ACP Omar Mammah said the boy's parents lodged a report on the incident yesterday and handed police a CCTV recording detailing the abuse.

He said the child suffered bruises on the lips, forehead and back.

He added that the maid was detained yesterday and was assisting police in the investigations.

ALMOST 4,000 children in Malaysia were rescued from various abuses by the Social Welfare Department  from 2008 till July this year.

Such are the alarming figures shown in the latest statistics from the department, whose officers have offered protection to children under-18 from a litany of abuses — including sexual, physical and  emotional abuse. Abandonment and neglect were other problems.

MALAYSIAN child killer Agnes Wong who was convicted of the horrific murder of a 17-month-old baby boy is planning to buy a house and start a small business with the £4,500 (RM25,400) given to her by the British  government as a “bribe” to leave the country, it was learnt.

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SHE was only nine when her father allegedly started to treat her as a sex slave to satisfy his bizarre sexual needs.

It went on for two years until the Standard Five pupil of a primary school in Setapak could not stand the pressure of keeping the secret and spilled it all to her school teacher recently.

Accompanied by her teacher and her mother, the girl — who is now 11 — went to the Wangsa Maju police  station to lodge a report against her father yesterday.

AT least one neighbour suspected that three-year old Aaliyah Aiman Hussin Abdullah, a child abuse victim
found dead early this month, had been beaten prior to her death — but nothing was done to stop the tragedy.

The neighbour, Lee, 46, who has been residing at the condominium for about a year, suspected the abuse only started with the presence of the Sudanese boyfriend.

“I don’t like to interfere with people’s private lives. But as far as I knew, the child was beaten severely by him.”

DUBLIN: Thousands marched through central Dublin yesterday to protest the decades-long abuse of children in Catholic churchrun institutions, as Irish bishops apologised anew for the “heinous crimes”. The silent marchers wore white ribbons and many carried children’s shoes which the organisers asked them to leave outside parliament “to symbolise the lives shattered in these institutions”.