4 policemen arrested for rape of RI woman
4 policemen arrested for rape of RI woman
Agencies, Kuala Lumpur
Four trainee police officers were arrested for allegedly raping
an Indonesian woman in southern Malaysia, prompting Prime
Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Thursday to order a review of
police disciplinary measures.
The 32-year-old woman told police she was abducted while
walking in Johor Baru city on Wednesday and raped, The Star
newspaper reported.
The woman accused the four of taking her to Mahmoodiah Road
Muslim cemetery and gang raping her, state police chief Musa
Hassan was quoted as saying.
Police picked up the four suspects, marine police recruits
aged between 22 and 24, from a training center a few hours later,
Musa Hassan, a senior police official, was cited as saying.
Badawi on Thursday ordered the country's police chief to
improve discipline in the ranks after four police trainees were
accused of raping an Indonesian woman.
Badawi also said he instructed Police Chief Bakri Omar to
review police training and study whether tougher punishments
should be handed out to officers guilty of committing abuses.
"I am saddened by the incident. The inspector general of
police (Bakri) has reported the matter to me involving the
policmen. It is a very serious case," he said.
Badawi said as officers of the law, police are given the task
of ensuring security.
"We do not want them to commit crimes. We do not want such
people to be in the force," he said.
Last year, a police officer was sentenced to 17 lashes with a
cane and 15 years in prison for raping two women from Indonesia
and the Philippines in a Kuala Lumpur police station.
Two other police officers are facing trial for raping a 13-
year-old girl at an immigration detention center in Sabah state
on Borneo island while she was awaiting deportation to the
Philippines.
The rape allegations also come just days after the nation was
shocked by the brutal rape and murder of two schoolgirls -- one
in Johor state and the other in the eastern Sabah state on Borneo
island.
On Saturday, Nurulhuda Ghani was found barely alive and naked
on the floor in the toilet of a guardhouse just 100 meters from
her home. She had been gang-raped by three men and choked, and
later died in hospital.
Nurulhuda had been sent to a nearby grocery shop on an errand
for her mother.