Taken from another forum.
Criminals who are less than human
I WAS jolted by two incidents involving two children last week. You
should be too, if you have kids.
Their ordeal sent shivers down my spine. It left me thinking that
our children are not safe from criminals every time we take our
eyes off them.
There are thieves around us who will not hesitate to resort to
anything, to steal, including abducting a toddler. And there are
sick people on the prowl who like to get a kick out of sexually
assaulting an innocent young girl.
In the first incident, thieves drove off with a car in broad
daylight, with a one-year-old boy inside, as her mother was closing
the front gate of their house in Bandar Sri Damansara.
Luckily, a good samaritan spotted the toddler later at night trying
to cross a road alone, and sent him to the police station. He was
soon reunited with his family.
For all we know, the boy might have enjoyed the city tour as he was
taken in the car. But I dread to think what might have happened if
the boy had fallen into the hands of worse rogues after he was left
abandoned by the roadside, or if he had rushed across the busy road
on his own.
In the other incident, a six-year-old girl was taken through the
six worst hours of her life by someone who you would not want to
call a human being.
According to what she told her mother after the traumatic
experience, a stranger had picked her up from her kindergarten in
Kampung Baru at 11am that day and took her to a house where
he forced an object into her private parts.
She was found by her mother nearly six hours later, barely able to
walk and with bloodstains on her uniform, about 100m from the
kindergarten.The girl, just like the one-year-old boy, is
back in the arms of her parents. But her mother now lives to regret
that she did not arrive at the kindergarten earlier than the
stranger.
The girl, meanwhile, is left with a permanent scar in her
mind.
Let us spare a thought or two for these children and their
families.
Sharif Haron
News editor
