A 14-YEAR-OLD girl from Tanjung Dawai in Sungai Petani, Kedah, admitted that she has been pregnant four times between 2007 and now, Harian Metro reported.
The teenager, who is three months pregnant now, had two miscarriages when she was 12 and 13 and underwent an abortion in April this year.She first became pregnant at 12 after she was raped in the bushes by a man who offered her a lift home after school, and became pregnant again the following year after being victimised by another man.
The girl dropped out of school and started work last year to ease the financial burden of her mother, who does not have a permanent job. Her father is a fisherman with no fixed income.To forget her problems, she mixed with other school dropouts in the area and started to take drugs such as syabu.She became pregnant for the third time after having sex with a youth and aborted the one-month-old foetus in April.
The teenager told her story at a meeting with enforcement officers from the Kuala Muda district religious office and Kedah Social Ills Unit (Unggas) volunteers at a food stall on Tuesday.Unggas supervisor Kamaruddin Kassim said the unit would monitor the progress of the teenager and assist her because she was victimised and had no one to turn to.
Kosmo! highlighted a report about Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno’s husband Mohamad Affendi Amir breaking his silence and expressing concern over the fact that his wife might also be jailed.Mohammad Affendi, who works in an IT firm in Singapore, e-mailed Kosmo! saying that Kartika should just be caned and should not have to spend even a day in prison.
He said Kartika had settled the RM5,000 fine after she was caught drinking alcohol, and was prepared to face six strokes of the rotan.A Pahang Syariah Judiciary Department spokesperson said it had yet to determine the date of the caning.
According to procedures, Kartika, who is a mother of two, would have to be detained for a week at Kajang Prison for the enforcement of the caning.
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