Sex services to 'resume later'

FB accounts of students offering sex closed

The Facebook accounts allegedly belonging to secondary school students offering sex services had been closed after China Press reported about them in its front-page on Thursday.

The daily reported that the girls were afraid that the authorities might be able to track them down through the accounts.

The paper had earlier reported that some students used Facebook to earn money through sex.

One said she had listed her sex services on a website to earn money to buy an iPhone.

A 17-year-old student from Kepong, who had paid RM300 a month to advertise herself on a sex website, said due to the report she would temporarily stop the advertisement.

She said she would resume her “service” later.

The daily also found out that a netizen who claimed to be a 21-year-old girl from Malacca cheated potential customers after they banked in the money to her.

The girl asked for RM300 per session of sex and RM600 for an overnight rendezvous.

The girl closed down her account after she received the money from the daily's reporter who had posed as a customer.

China Press also reported that a Form Three student from Ampang, Selangor, skipped school several times to have sex with her Form Four boyfriend in a toilet at a mamak stall.

Her teacher, who was suspicious about her constant absence from school, hauled her in for questioning.

The girl decided to tell her teacher the truth after she was threatened by her boyfriend to pay RM150 or he would tell her family members and classmates about their sexual liaisons.

> Sin Chew Daily reported that Ella Chen, a member of Asia's top all-girl singing group S.H.E., denied that she would marry her Malaysian boyfriend Alvin Lai this year.

“I am very busy this year. I have no time to get married,” she said.

Previously, a magazine reported that Chen would marry in December or March next year.

Story of a young cambodian prostitute

A young Cambodian relates the appalling events that led her into prostitution.

It was the sort of day that made you want to really seize all opportunities. There was a beautiful blue sky dotted with white wisps of clouds and the kind of sun benevolent enough not to burn your skin. It was 8am in Cambodia and the adventure at hand was a trip through Angkor Archaeological Park. My guide? A 22-year-old sex worker named Samnang, the Cambodian word for Good Fortune.

“You can call me Sam,” she said, smiling shyly.

I had met Sam two days earlier, by accident, when I got lost meandering through the streets of Siem Reap. At first, she tried giving me directions, but when I failed to comprehend, mostly because I’m not good with maps, Sam offered to walk me back to where I was staying during my week-long visit.

When we arrived, I asked Sam to have dinner with me, but she declined, saying she had to work. When I asked what she worked as, she explained in halting English that she was a sex worker. I tried to sound casual, telling her why I was in Cambodia and that I was looking for someone who could show me around. I asked if she would be interested.

And so, two days later, on a gorgeous day in Siem Rep, Sam takes me on a journey very different from the one I had in mind.

As we walk down Sivatha Road, we talk about our lives and I ask her if she would tell her story for me to share with others. She agrees but asks that no photographs be taken. We find a restaurant and seat ourselves for a meal. Spicy chicken rice at 8.30am is indeed the breakfast of champions.

The Journey Begins

Sam’s life began as a rather happy one, but it quickly turned into a horrific series of events. Born in Vietnam, she went to Thailand when she was 17 in search of a better life. She found a job as a waitress. One day, she met a foreigner named Gerard who was very pleased to learn that she was a Vietnam native. He was a businessman who was enthusiastic about importing cheap scooters into Vietnam.

After several lunches and dinners, Sam agreed to take Gerard to Vietnam to help him start his business. Felicitations of love followed soon after, and a promise of marriage was extended. One thing led to another and Sam found herself pregnant two months into the relationship. The business was also warming up. But Gerard’s ardour toward her cooled drastically.

“He began ignoring me and wasn’t shy about doing it openly,” she shares. Gerard also turned out to be a paedophile, having his way with many underage girls. “In Vietnam, if you have money, you can get away with anything; you just pay the police to keep them quiet,” Sam says, frowning. I tell her that this happens around the world.

Gerard left Sam in her third month of pregnancy. “I tried asking him to help me and the baby with some money, but he said it’s not his problem anymore,” she says, her voice thick with emotion. “He told me that I should get an abortion, which he was willing to pay for. I didn’t want to do this and I had nowhere to go. One day, while I was looking for odd jobs, I met an old friend who was working as a seamstress. She took me in without question.”

On the Run

Months later, Sam gave birth to a beautiful girl and named her Maelea, which means Flower Garland. Soon after this, she found a job as a cleaner and life seemed better for a while.

About a year later, while she was out with her baby, Sam bumped into Gerard at the local market. The man who initially wanted to get rid of the baby now wanted her for himself when he saw how cute she was. “I refused of course,” Sam says. “I knew what he did with the other young girls. I didn’t trust him anymore and I was afraid that he would hurt my baby.”

But Gerard got his way through his connections and by using corrupt officials. But after a month, Sam got Maelea back with the help of a visiting social worker from the United States.

“I cried for days after I saw what he had done to my baby. Her private parts were swollen and discoloured. She was only one year old.” Sam’s petite body shook with heavy sobs from this terrible memory.

When confronted, Gerard rejected the accusations and threatened to hurt Sam and the baby if she continued to pester him. But he still wanted Maelea. “He would come to the house that I shared with my friend and send thugs over to threaten us. I was afraid for our safety and decided that I would leave and hide out in Cambodia.”

Starting Anew

After a difficult journey, Sam found herself in a foreign country. She couldn’t speak the language, and had a little child to feed.

“I tried for three months to find a job. No one would hire me. I had to beg on the streets with my daughter in my arms. We were staying at bus stands and wherever else that we could find shelter. I thought that if feeding my daughter and providing her with a roof over her head meant that I had to sell my body, then it was a small price to pay.” And so she turned to prostitution.

“I will never forget the first time I did it. I just kept my mind on the food that I will be able to buy for my child and me. That made it easier.

“I have been doing this for four years now and have met many women like me. In the early days, one of them told me that I would get used to it, that it would get easier. This is not true. I have never gotten used to it and I will not be doing this for much longer.” There was conviction in her voice.

Sam says she will give it another half a year. “What will my daughter think?” I am stumped for a reply.

“Soon, she will be old enough to start asking me questions,” she adds. Later, I ask her if she would ever tell Maelea of her past. Sam takes a long pause and says, “Right now, I don’t know if I will. I want to be honest, but I also think that she doesn’t have to know the ugly side of my life.”

I ask what she would like to do for a living.

“I am saving some money to go back to school and study. I want to become a teacher.” And then she asks shyly, “Do you think I can?”

I am too overwhelmed to say anything and I nod my answer.

At the time of writing, Sam has already started her classes. After so much misfortune, it does look like she is going to live up to the meaning of her name after all.

Aneesa Alphonsus

Skandal Seks Ahli Parlimen Sabah

Mohd Yatim Suhaili

UMNO yang dikatakan menjadi dalang dan heboh dengan Skandal Video Seks yang didakwa melibatkan Ketua Pembangkang terkejut dengan dakwaan seorang wanita yang mengakui mengandung anak hasil hubungan sulitnya setelah diperdaya seorang Ahli Parlimen daripada UMNO.
 

Wanita berkenaan menghubungi Sabahkini.net dan menunjukkan hasil DNA anaknya yang sama dengan profail DNA Lelaki 'S' iaitu seorang Ahli Parlimen UMNO daripada Sabah.

Sabahkini.net sedang mendapatkan pengesahan pihak yang mengeluarkan keputusan DNA tersebut dan Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara Sabah berhubung status anak wanita berkenaan yang dibinkan kepada seorang lelaki lain.

Dimaklumkan keluarga wanita terbabit telah membuat laporan polis tetapi kes berkenaan ditutup begitu sahaja kerana pengaruh Ahli Parlimen berkenaan.

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Obscene booklets of Anwar hit Sabah

Lewd caricatures and photographs depicting the opposition leader is 'no longer' about politics but a reflection of 'the morality of the people in the country'.

KOTA KINABALU: Police have been urged to investigate the mass distribution of a booklet called “Mentor 5” that is riddled with lewd wordings and photographs of Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim in compromising positions.


United Sabah Taekwando Association (USTA) president David Chong said the 14-page booklet was disturbing, especially the caricatures and doctored pictures showing someone resembling PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim and another person naked and in compromising positions.

“I have received complaints and was given a copy of the booklet … it is printed in colour. The complainant received the booklet through the mail on March 29.

“The booklet is sent using an 80 sen stamp and based on the post office rubber stamp it was sent from Pahang,” said Chong.

Chong described the booklets as “very disturbing” and that those responsible for publishing and sending them were going overboard in their bid to character assassinate the opposition leader.

“What worries me the most is that the booklet falling into the hands of schoolchildren. They will take this to school and show it to their friends.

“Being immature they may believe that it is all right for them to do whatever is said in the booklet.

“I hope the police and relevant authorities will look into the matter seriously.

“This is no longer political but involves the morality of the people in the country,” he said.

Chong believed the booklets were sent throughout the country using addresses randomly picked from the telephone directory.

He said TV3 should also initiate its investigation into the booklet because it had used the name “Mentor 5”, which was a singing competition reality show produced by the television station.

In the booklet, Anwar is depicted as the “Sifu” or mentor and one of his disciples is Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

In subsequent pages, both the face of Anwar and Saiful were “pasted” over men posing naked as well as on the face of two mating animals. Saiful is a key witness in Anwar’s ongoing sodomy II trial.

PKR vice-president and Anwar’s daugher Nurul Izzah had lodged a police report last week in Kuala Lumpur claiming that lewd cartoons depicting her father were being posted to the constituents in Lembah Pantai.

A sex video was also revealed two weeks ago by a trio calling themselves Datuk T, allegedly showing Anwar having sex with a foreign sex worker. Anwar has denied that he was the man in the video. By Charlie Rudai

'Even if not doctored, it isn't Anwar in sex video'

Not surprisingly PKR continues to rally behind its de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim despite the sex video allegations against him.

Amidst the nation's top cop stating that the footage of the sex video screened to journalists is genuine, PKR communications chief Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said it still does not prove who is in the video.

"Even if the video is genuine, fine and dandy. But it still does not prove who is in the video. Other people who have watched the video said that apart from the face, the physical attributes are not Anwar's.

"I hope the police will get to the bottom of this and find out who framed Anwar," Nik Nazmi (left) said when contacted by Malaysiakini.

The 22-minute video was shown to several people, including journalists, at Carcos Seri Negara in Kuala Lumpur on March 21, depicting a couple having sex.

'Datuk T' - the trio who admitted to screening the video - have since alleged that the man in the act is Anwar.

However, in an immediate reaction, several PKR leaders, including Batu MP and vice-president Tian Chua, have claimed that the video is doctored and falsified.

Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar said this morning the sex video was not doctored, based on views by "experts" roped in to help with the investigations.

"We didn't watch the video, so I still can't tell if it's doctored. But I know who Anwar is. I was his political secretary for two years. I've travelled abroad with him several times, I know his family and I've known him personally for six or seven years," Nik Nazmi said.

"Whether the video was doctored or someone else is impersonating Anwar, it does not explain anything. Identify who is in the video, lah. Even the IGP did not identify who it is."

'Crazy people with axe to grind'

Nik Nazmi, who is also the Seri Setia assemblyperson, said the police chief's statement does not change PKR's stand on the sex video.

"This doesn't change our stand on the whole shambolic episode - Anwar is not the person in the video," he said.

He said the video was concocted by "some crazy people with an agenda, an axe to grind".

"From the video to the sodomy trial and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission guy watching porn, people are going to think that Malaysia is oversexed or filled with perverts," he added.

Former Malacca chief minister Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik, businessman Shazryl Eskay Abdullah and Perkasa treasurer Shuib Lazim have admitted to banding together to release the video.

However, what the video successfully did was to put off people from politics, Nik Nazmi said.

"We tried to bring politics to a higher level. We tried to talk about our policies and the Buku Jingga.

"Now this throws people off politics. It's not even 18SX (a Malaysian censorship board classification for films with sexual elements), it's 80SX.

"This is not about politics and this should not be what our mainstream papers are about. It demeans public life and politicians," he lashed out in anger.

Meanwhile, PKR youth chief Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin (right) did not put much stock in the IGP's statement on the sex video's authenticity, saying that they had “expected” such a finding.

“The bigger question is, what happened to all the police reports lodged (against Datuk T)? Why is it that Datuk T have not been arrested?

“Why are the police quiet over what clearly are offences committed by the trio? We maintain that everything related to this sex video is politically motivated,” he said, claiming further that at least 30 police reports had been filed across the country against Datuk T.

Met at after the state assembly sitting in Shah Alam, Selangor Pakatan Rakyat chairperson Abdul Khalid Ibrahim said that the IGP should be clear when making such statements.

“He says it is authentic, but what is authentic? The video or the actor? And if it is authentic then what are the consequences?

“Taking the (MCA Chua Soi Lek leaked sex) video for example, the video was authentic and Chua had admitted to be the actor in the video. What has happened to him now?” he asked.

Abdul Khalid, who is also Selangor Menteri Besar, added that in any case the two sex video incidents are different as Anwar has vehemently denied that he is the man in the recording.

“Unless the IGP has evidence to say otherwise then (authenticity of the video) is not the issue,” he said.

By Regina Lee

Sex video clip genuine, says IGP

The special team investigating the case was in the closing stages of the probe.

KUALA LUMPUR: Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Ismail Omar said today the sex video clip allegedly involving an opposition politician is genuine.

This is based on the report of experts who had used the clip to investigate the case, he told reporters.

Ismail said the special team investigating the case was in the closing stages of the probe and that the investigation papers would be handed over to the attorney-general soon.


The sex video clip, said to be of an opposition politician and a woman suspected to be a prostitute, was shown privately to selected journalists recently.

Police set up a team to investigate the case after Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, who denied that he was the man in the video clip, had lodged a police report. -  Bernama


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The hidden camera video of the sex act was screened at Carcosa Seri Negara, Kuala Lumpur, on March 21, to a select guest list that included senior newspaper editors, and later shown to selected politicians.

The perpetrators of the screening of the pornographic video, a trio called Datuk T, later revealed themselves to be former Malacca chief minister Abdul Rahim Tamby Chik, Perkasa treasurer-general Shuaib Lazim and a businessman Shazryl Eskay Abdullah, who is currently embroiled in a court case related to the Johor-Singapore 'crooked bridge'.

Police action on the Datuk T members remains elusive.

PKR's communications director Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, meanwhile, has told Malaysiakini in response to Ismail's statement, "We acknowledge that it is not CGI (computer-generated imagery) but the question now is (who is the) actor in the video?"