Duped into prostitution

KUALA LUMPUR - When Delima (not her real name) was told that she had secured a job as a domestic helper in Singapore, the Indonesian was elated.

Knowing that the job would be of great financial help to her family, the 25-year-old was willing to part with her elderly parents and siblings.

She was horrified when her employer turned out to be a pimp and her place of work and new home was a brothel in Bukit Bintang.

Girl lures teens into sex attack

A teenage girl lured two 16-year-olds into a sex attack by three men in the United Kingdom.

Stephanie Knight, (pic) then 17, agreed to find girls for three of her male friends, who she called  "my boys".

Agencies reported Knight invited them for a night out clubbing.

Instead, they were then taken to a dark and empty house with no electricity, where one of the attackers once lived.

Knight threatened one girl, ordering her to perform a sex act on one man before holding her back.

The other girl screamed for help, as her friend was raped.

Knight warned the girl that her friend would suffer even more if she did not comply and said ‘she is chilling with my boys’.

The trio took turns to rape her throughout the night.

Both girls were then raped once more as one of the men, whose partner was due to give birth at the time, drove them home.

He threatened them with a knife.

The three men, brothers Amjad Hussain, 34, and Shahid Hussain, 37, and their cousin father-of-four Tanveer Butt, 39, were all convicted of rape.

The victims had only known Knight for a week.

Knight had a sexual relationship with Amjad Hussain and also performed sex acts on his brother and cousin.

What Umno fears most: Bersih 2.0 is spreading into the Malay heartland

What UMNO has been dreading is starting to happen - Bersih 2.0 is starting to spread and into the hard-to-penetrate Malay middle ground.

Something that pundits say the UMNO top leadership should take close note of, even as Prime Minister Najib Razak and his cousin Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein try to damage control the fiasco they created due to mishandling and disconnect with the rest of the nation.

Indians pay surgeons to turn girls into boys

Madhya Pradesh state government is investigating claims that up to 300 girls were surgically turned into boys in one city after their parents paid about £2,000 each for the operations.

Women's and children's rights campaigners denounced the practice as a "social madness" that made a "mockery of women in India".

India's gender balance has already been tilted in favour of boys by female foeticide – sex selection abortions - by families who fear the high marriage costs and dowries they may have to pay. There are now seven million more boys than girls aged under six in the country.

Campaigners said the use of surgery meant that girls were no longer safe even after birth.

The row emerged after newspapers disclosed children from throughout India were being operated on by doctors in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

Doctors confronted in the investigation claimed that girls with genital abnormalities were being sent to the city's clinics to be "surgically corrected" and that only children born with both male and female sexual characteristics were eligible for the procedure. But campaigners said the parents and doctors were misindentifying the children's conditions to turn girls into boys.

The surgery, known as genitoplasty, fashions a penis from female organs, with the child being injected with male hormones to create a boy.

Dr V P Goswami, the president of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics in Indore, described the disclosures as shocking and warned parents that the procedure would leave their child impotent and infertile in adulthood.

"Genitoplasty is possible on a normal baby of both the sexes but later on these organs will not grow with the hormonal influence and this will lead to their infertility as well as their impotency. It is shocking news and we will be looking into it and taking corrective measures," he said. "Parents have to consider the social as well as the psychological impact of such procedures on the child."

India's National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights ordered the Madhya Pradesh government to investigate the claims and produce its findings within 15 days.

Ranjana Kumari, of the Centre for Social Research and one of India's leading campaigners against female foeticide, said the surgical transformation of girls into boys without their informed consent was a sign of India's growing "social madness".

She said she despaired that education had failed to stop the growing rejection of baby girls in India.

"The figures are getting worse. In 2001 there were 886 girls born to every 1,000 boys in Delhi. Today there are only 866. The more educated and rich you are, the more there is killing of girls," she said.

"People don't want to share their property or invest in girls' education or pay dowries. It's the greedy middle classes running after money. It is just so shocking and an outright violation of children's rights."

The government needed to address the problem by stressing the spiritual value a girl or woman brought a household in Hindu culture. "In India we say God resides in that house where there's a woman but that has evaporated because of all this greed. We need to emphasise the spiritual wealth a girl brings to a family, but we also need to support them with financial subsidies and jobs," she added.

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Girls jump into river to test boy's love, but boy runs away!

Two teenagers, who admired the same person, jumped into a river in an attempt to test the boy's feelings.

The classmates from a secondary school in Guangan city of Sichuan province believed that the boy would save the person he loved first.

But unexpectedly, the boy Li Xiongzheng – also their classmate - ran away.

Zhang Feng, 14, and Jiang Yun, 16, were on holiday after finishing their junior high school examination.

On Thursday, the girls bumped into each other at the riverbank and had a chat.

And at this juncture, Li showed up.

The girls immediately confronted Li and asked him to choose between them. The boy remained silent.

Zhang Feng then came up with an idea. She suggested that both of them should jump into the river to find out who Li would save first.

Jiang Yun agreed and seconds later, both of them were in the Lingxi river.

Passers-by and two policemen on their rounds, who saw the girls struggling in the water, rescued them.

The boy, who was in fear, ran away.

Realising their mistake, the girls apologised and promised the cops not to repeat the act.

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