Boy, they sure are lots of civilian justice being handed out these days.
Barely a week after a man was beaten up by the members of the public for allegedly taking a video of a woman’s buttocks at a shopping mall in Johor Baru, a youth had his ass handed to him after he was caught allegedly molesting a little girl.
Miri police chief Asst Comm Khoo Leng Huat told The Star Online that the incident occured at the E-Mart commercial centre in the Kuala Baram on Wednesday evening.
According to ACP Khoo, members of the public saw the youth, believed to be an Indonesian, trying to lure a six-year-old girl to the top floor of the complex, a secluded area where kitchen equipments are reportedly kept.
“They saw the youth forcing himself on her and fondling her private parts while trying to unzip her pants, and swiftly intervened,” ACP Khoo was quoted as saying.
Before the youth could do anything more to the girl, he was reportedly beaten up by several passers-by before being taken to the security office.
The police were then alerted and the suspect was promptly arrested.
ACP Khoo told the news portal that the youth had been placed in a police lock-up pending investigations.
Meanwhile, the girl – believed to be daughter of a trader who was operating a stall in the vicinity – has been sent to the Miri Hospital for check-up.
