Three female students from a school in Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, who gained notoriety when a video of them beating up a schoolmate went viral, pleaded guilty to a charge of causing voluntary harm in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
Magistrate Zulhairil Sulaiman presided over the hearing in which the three students, all aged 16, admitted to the charge brought up against them.
After receiving their guilty pleas, Zulhairil ordered their release on RM5,000 bail each with their own parents as sureties, pending the probation report.
The three were also required to report to their local police station once a week until further mention of the case, Bernama reports.
The 76-second video, widely circulated across Facebook and copied and reshared on YouTube, depicts a group of about 10 schoolgirls loitering at a stairwell in their school, occasionally posing as if to take selfies and proclaiming themselves pailang (Hokkien for ‘gangster’), then proceeding to attack one of their number.
The attackers tore off the victim’s headscarf and pulled her hair, while kicking her to the floor. The victim can be seen covering her face with her hands.
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