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  • Underage Sex On The Rise In Singapore

    Underage Sex On The Rise In Singapore

    More teenagers are becoming sexually active – with an increasing number thinking that it is normal for them to have sex, social workers say.

    Figures from the State Courts show a steady growth in the number of cases of sex with a minor – that is, sex with a girl under 16, which is a crime even if she gives her consent.

    Last year, there were 76 cases of the offence, down from 89 in 2013, but still an increase from 63 in 2012 and 36 in 2011.

    At the Youth Court – which deals with children and youth under 16 years – there were four cases of youths charged last year with having sex with another minor, and five cases of assault with the intent of molest.

    Social workers told The Straits Times that young people are typically referred to counsellors for behavioural problems but, during counselling, they sometimes open up on their sexual experiences.

    Ms Lena Teo, assistant director of counselling at the Children-at-Risk Empowerment Association (Care Singapore), said: “I’ve seen roughly 20 per cent more underage sex cases over the years. Nowadays, teens are more tech-savvy and some lack parental control. They are more experimental because of curiosity and hormones raging at that age. It could also be peer pressure.”

    Mr Lam Wai Mun, a senior counsellor at Touch Cyber Wellness, noted that underage sex is a common issue.

    “Some in primary school are also watching pornography, which is damaging because they form unhealthy perceptions,” he said.

    The younger generation is also more open to having sex at an early age, according to Mr Trevor Xie, former director of Children’s Wishing Well, a charity for underprivileged children and youth.

    “They don’t see losing their virginity as a loss. They see sexual experience as a gain,” he said.

    Mr Xie added that they are usually willing parties, and are looking for love.

    Ms Rachel Lee, senior assistant director of Fei Yue Family Service Centres, said the Internet has an impact on their views on sex as they may be exposed to “undesirable material” online.

    “In the last five years or so, there has been an increase in such cases. There are those who engage in underage sex but are just not caught yet,” said Ms Lee.

    “This affects their studies and some may get pregnant and drop out of school,” she said, adding that “a lot of them are not ready to take on the responsibility”.

    Experts said parents play an important part in ensuring that their children grow up with the right values.

    Ms Gracia Goh, head of the Singapore Children’s Society’s youth centre in Jurong, advised parents to talk to their children about sex and take note of any inappropriate behaviour. Parents should also look for “teachable moments” when they can have discussions with their children about what they are watching or hearing, added Ms Goh.

    If necessary, they can block access to websites with sexually explicit material.

    Dr Adrian Wang, a psychiatrist in private practice, advised: “Have a close and healthy relationship with your children, so that they’ll feel comfortable asking you questions, and you’ll know who their friends are and what they’ve been up to.

    “Peer influence is a powerful thing, and many kids are clever enough to go under the radar and hide their activities from you.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Safuwan Baharudin Features In FIFA 15 Video Game

    Safuwan Baharudin Features In FIFA 15 Video Game

    Singapore defender Safuwan Baharudin now features in popular football video game Fifa 15, after his loan move to A-League side Melbourne City.

    Following an update earlier this week, the 23-year-old appears on the bench of the Australian side bearing the name “Baharudin”, which appears on the back of his jersey in the game as well. He is believed to be the only Singaporean player in Fifa 15.

    With a rating of 56, he is the fourth-best centre-back in the squad, and can also play at right-back and as a defensive midfielder. His best attributes in the game are sprint speed, stamina and balance.

    Safuwan made his highly anticipated A-League debut on Saturday, coming in to the Melbourne City starting line-up as a replacement for injured defensive midfielder Erik Paartalu. However, he was unable to prevent Melbourne City crashing to a 0-3 loss against city rivals Melbourne Victory, having been substituted after an hour.

    On Safuwan’s performance, his coach John van’t Schip said: “Looking at him today… he was not afraid to challenge, he was not afraid to coach (provide directions to teammates), he wanted to have the ball; he was strong in the air defensively but also when we go forward.

    “He’s a player we rate highly from what we have seen and we think he can still make big steps.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Sufiah Yusuf: Kisah Hidup Genius Cilik Malaysia

    Sufiah Yusuf: Kisah Hidup Genius Cilik Malaysia

    Namanya menjadi sebutan dunia apabila lulus dalam peperiksaan matematik A-Level dan diterima memasuki Universiti Oxford ketika berumur 12 tahun.

    Selepas tiga tahun di Oxford, Sufiah Yusuf mengejutkan dunia apabila dia menjadi buruan polis selepas melarikan diri dari universiti berkenaan, dipercayai akibat tertekan ekoran masalah keluarganya.

    Bermula pada tahun 2000 beliau hilang dari universiti, operasi pencarian meluas di seluruh UK sehingga ditemui bekerja sebagai pelayan di kafe internet.

    Pada 2008, dunia digemparkan dengan berita Sufiah menjadi pekerja seks pada usia 23 tahun dengan menjual tubuh di Britain dengan nama samaran Shilpa Lee.

    Tragedi yang melanda gadis genius itu dibongkar oleh wartawan News of the World yang menyamar sebagai pelanggan, di flat murah yang didiaminya di belakang lorong di Salford, Manchester.

    Sufiah dikatakan terbabit dalam kegiatan tidak bermoral itu, untuk menyara hidupnya yang terumbang-ambing, tidak lama selepas bercerai dengan suaminya, Jonathan Marshall, seorang pelajar jurusan undang-undang yang dikenalinya di Oxford.

    Pendedahan akhbar itu berlaku serentak ketika bapanya, Yusof Farooq yang berasal dari Pakistan mula menjalani hukuman penjara kerana mencabul dua gadis berusia 15 tahun ketika memberi mereka tuisyen matematik.

    Selepas menyepi dengan hidup berpindah randah di UK, Sufiah muncul buat pertama kali di media dalam tempoh hampir tujuh tahun selepas bersetuju ditemubual oleh wartawan TV3, Halizah Hashim di sebuah hotel di Liverpool.

    Dalam temubual eksklusif yang disiarkan dalam program Nona pada petang Ahad, Sufiah mengimbas semula episod hitam yang diakuinya membuat dirinya lebih cekal dan tabah.

    Sufiah mengaku hubungan dengan keluarganya sudah lama renggang dan menyifatkan keadaan itu adalah lebih baik pada masa ini.

    “Saya harap mereka tenang dalam kehidupan yang harmoni. Saya percaya mereka juga mengharapkan perkara yang sama terhadap saya,” katanya yang mengaku lebih tenang untuk tinggal bersama rakannya.

    Ibu Sufiah, Halimahton berasal dari Muar, Johor manakala bapanya, Yusof berasal dari Pakistan.

    Sufiah yang kini berusia 30 tahun bagaimanapun berkata, dia tidak kesal dengan cara dia dibesarkan oleh keluarganya dan memilih untuk lagi mahu menyalahkan sesiapa.

    Ditebak dengan soalan mengenai kisah hitamnya sebagai pekerja seks, Sufiah mengakui ia adalah pengalaman yang benar-benar mematangkanya sebagai manusia.

    Sufiah berkata, dia melakukannya selama bebebera bulan dan berhenti selepas diburu media Britain.

    Diugut dan diganggu oleh media adalah pengalaman yang menakutkan. Aksinya dirakamkan secara rahsia oleh wartawan Britain yang menyamar sebagai pelanggan.

    Gambar Sufiah sebagai pekerja seks kemudiannya dipamerkan muka-muka hadapan tabloid-tabloid Britain.

    “Mereka cuba memberi saya dadah dan menyuruh saya menanggalkan pakaian supaya mereka dapat merakamkan secara rahsia aksi saya di atas katil. Walaupun anda tidak bersetuju dengan pekerjaan saya tetapi cara itu adalah tidak adil sama sekali.

    “Ketika saya menjadi buruan media, ia adalah satu keadaan yang tidak masuk akal. Setiap hari saya menerima pebagai emel berbentuk ugutan. Ia sengaja diperbesarkan dan ini agak menakutkan saya yang masih remaja ketika itu.

    “Malah masyarakat di sana menganggap mereka berhak menceroboh kehidupan saya. Saat itu saya cukup tertekan terutama cara sesetengah media yang ingin mendapatkan kisah saya. Mengugut untuk saya ditemuramah dan ia pengalaman yang cukup menakutkan,” katanya tenang.

    Namun, Sufiah mengakui, kisah hitam itu membawa kebaikan untuk dirinya menyesuaikan diri dengan kehidupan di sana.

    “Walaupun pada mulanya ia memberi tekanan yang cukup hebat, saya bersyukur kerana akhirnya dapat mempunyai kekuatan untuk menghadapinya,” ujarnya lagi.

    Sufiah berkata, sebenarnya bukan dirinya sahaja, tetapi ramai lagi indiviu yang diperhatikan, laporan perubatan mereka diakses, alamat mereka dicari, diugut akan dirakam secara rahsia.

    Situasi begini cukup menekan, tetapi saya dapat mengatasinya dengan baik,” tambah Sufiah.

    Menurut Sufiah, selepas pendedahan media itu, hidupnya menjadi porak-peranda. Dia menyembuyikan diri dengan berpindah beberapa kali dan tidak mahu bertemu dengan sesiapa.

    Diajukan soalan kenapa baru kali ini dia bersetuju untuk sekal lagi berdepan dengan media selepas tujuh tahun menghilang, Sufiah berkata, dia sudah benar-benar bersedia untuk bercerita.

    “Mungkin saya telah lama tidak bercakap dengan media dan tentunya saya mahukan laporan berita yang lebih baik. Jadi saya ingin berkongsi semula kisah dengan media.

    “Ini tidak bermakna kisah yang dikongsi itu menarik minat masyarkat, tetapi ada sesetengahnya yang ingin tahu dan bersimpati dengan kisah saya walaupun mereka tidak mengenali saya. Saya sangat-sangat menghargainya,” jelas Sufiah.

    Pada akhir temubual itu, Sufiah bercakap mengenai siapa dirinya pada hari ini.

    “Saya tidak lagi berkebolehan atau pintar, saya tiada wang, tiada tempat tinggal, saya sedang mencari kerja sambilan dan saya tiada ijazah. Saya hanya wanita berusia 30 tahun yang membosankan,” katanya.

    Sufiah masih merahsiakan di mana dia tainggal, tidak memberitahu di univiersiti mana dia belajar sekarang dan enggan mendedahkan di mana dia bekerja sambilan.

    Apa yang pasti, cilik genius matematik yang menjadi kebanggaan negara kini sudah dewasa dan matang.

    Kegagalan dan episod hitam telah mendewasakan dan membuat Sufiah lebih cekal dalam melayari bahtera kehidupan yang cukup mencabar.

     

    Source: http://newmalaysianpost.com

     

  • Implementation Of Hudud Law Places Kelantan At Risk Of Being Overrun By Paedophiles

    Implementation Of Hudud Law Places Kelantan At Risk Of Being Overrun By Paedophiles

    Paedophiles will overrun Kelantan if it implements hudud as the Islamic law is open to abuse and rejects using scientific evidence to prove crime, says a spokesperson for the group of eminent Malays, or G25.

    Datuk Noor Farida Ariffin said since it would be difficult to prove crimes like adultery, rape of children and adults will abound.

    “This is the nature of PAS’s hudud,” she said.

    Farida said Kelantan’s hudud rejected the use of scientific methods such as DNA testing and fingerprints, instead requiring the evidence of four witnesses of the alleged crime.

    “They are using evidence used in the 12th century to prove adultery, pushing out scientific methods.

    “They are asserting that is the only way to prove the crime of adultery, which does not make sense,” she said, adding that PAS leaders travelled in cars and planes but did not want to accept scientific evidence.

    She added that Prophet Muhammad had also told his people about the importance of acquiring knowledge.

    “The Prophet said that we should go in search of knowledge even up to China.

    “If hudud is implemented in Kelantan, paedophiles will abound in the state,” she said.

    Farida added that the structure of society was not suitable for the implementation of hudud.

    She said Islamic scholars were of the view that many conditions needed to be fulfilled before the Islamic law can be introduced.

    “We need a just society, a smaller gap between the rich and the poor. But here, even among the Malays, there is a divide.

    “The problem is that the ustaz in the villages are spreading the message that hudud is God’s law which cannot be questioned,” she said at a forum on economic freedom and globalisation today.

    The forum was organised by think tank Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs.

    PAS’s plan to implement hudud in Kelantan has been strongly opposed by its Pakatan Rakyat coalition partner DAP.

    Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yesterday urged PAS to table the proposed amendments to the Shariah Criminal Code Enactment 11 at the Pakatan presidential council meeting tomorrow before taking it to Parliament.

    But Kelantan Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yakob responded by saying that the Islamic enactment could only be tabled at the state assembly sitting or Parliament as it is under embargo.

    “However, we have discussed at the technical committee state, which included legal experts, lecturers and NGOs including parties within Pakatan.

    “So this Sunday, we cannot table the enactment, the next stop is Parliament,” he said after the Friday sermon in Kota Baru.

     

    Source: www.themalaysianinsider.com

  • PAP Members Alleged Indian Man Arrested In Thaipusam Fracas Insulted Islam

    PAP Members Alleged Indian Man Arrested In Thaipusam Fracas Insulted Islam

    Today’s Straits Times report on the arrest of the three Indians involved in the scuffle during Thaipusam stated that one of the Indians “insulted the police officer’s religion, Islam” during the confrontation.

    This had been denied by the Indian in his account of what happened. The Indian man said that he just asked the officer why Muslims are allowed to play their kompang drums whereas Hindus cannot play their urumi on Thaipusam.

    PAP members online tried to play up this ‘against Islam’ version to try and get netizens to condemn the men who were arrested. They raised the boogeyman of the 1964 race riots and tried to say that the officers had prevented a race riot.

    On the FAP page, PAP member Daniel Tan Boon Huat (Woodgrove branch) harassed Indian Singaporeans and asked if they wanted to get arrested too:

    Dani Herwie Daniel Tan Boon Huat

    Another PAP member, Johari Bin Mohamed Rais who serves in Aljunied GRC with Victor lye further tried to instigate tensions between Hindus and Muslims:

    Johari Bin Mohamed Rais

    There is an effort to portray the three Indians as people who insulted Islam to prevent sinkies from uniting against the PAP in this Thaipusam incident. Divide and conquer strategy.

    Hope sinkies stay united and not fall for this.

    Btw, this is PAP member Daniel Tan Boon Huat who harassed local Indians and threatened them with arrest:

     

    Daniel Tan Boon Huat Selfie

    Source: www.therealsingapore.com

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