Friday April 7, 2006
SMS date ends in gang rape
BY NELSON BENJAMIN
JOHOR BARU: She was already engaged but this did not stop a 24-year-old factory worker from meeting another man whom she had previously known only through the SMS and phone calls.
After mustering enough courage to go on a date with her SMS admirer, she landed, instead, in an abandoned house in Masai where she was gang-raped.
Police believe the same group was also involved in an incident on March 6 when a 14-year-old schoolgirl was raped and forced to perform oral sex on several men in Taman Daya, near here.
They have so far rounded up five men – aged 17 to 30 – in a series of state-wide raids over the past few days.
The case involving the factory worker occurred when she agreed to go out with her SMS contact, in his 20s, at the end of last month.
The victim suspected something amiss when she was taken to the abandoned house and found it in a mess.
Her date prevented her from escaping and forced her into the house where several men were waiting.
She was shoved into a room, where at least two of the men raped her.
They then sent her home and she immediately told her fiancé about the incident. The couple then lodged a police report.
In the other case, the Form Two student agreed to go on a date with a man she had befriended only a month earlier.
The man took her to an abandoned house, where several others were waiting.
They forced her to perform oral sex and then gang-raped her, before sending her home some two hours later.
For more then two weeks she kept mum about the matter.
However, her mother, noticing some changes in her behaviour, asked her on March 21 what was bothering her and she related the incident.
Johor CID chief Senior Asst Comm II Datuk Rahim Jaafar urged women, especially young girls, to be careful when going out on dates with people they hardly know or are meeting for the first time.
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