Cue the long, drawn-out discussion on what the Malaysian education system is doing to our children and what this bodes for the future of our people: a nine-year old Year Three student allegedly sent via SMS a rape threat against one of his teachers.
The pupil and teacher, of Sekolah Kebangsaan Lanai in Kubang, Kedah, allegedly found themselves at loggerheads when the teacher refused to appoint the boy’s friend to the post of class monitor.
The boy first called the teacher on her phone to berate her, and then followed up with an SMS that read: “Teacher, wait I will rape you, soon.”
The 39-year old victim was at home in Bandar Putri Jaya, Sungai Petani, when she received the threat at 10.30pm on February 13.
A colleague of the victim said, “She is traumatised that her pupil had boldly made the threat.”
The victim’s husband was asked to call back the mobile number used to send the SMS, and got into a conversation with a man in his 30s claiming to be the Year Three student’s uncle. He promised to punish the boy and to report the matter to the boy’s parents.
The teacher lodged a police report at the Kuala Muda police headquarters on February 14.
A senior assistant at the SK Lanai primary school said that the boys parents have been called in to the school for a meeting today.
“We want to find out what prompted the pupil to make the threat against his teacher and whether the child needs psychiatric help,” he said, adding the boy was absent from school yesterday.
Meanwhile, anti-crime activist Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye wants the Kedah education department to make a full probe into the matter.
“I am dumbfounded. How could a boy make such a grave threat? We need to nip the problem in the bud,” said Lee, the Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation vice-chairman.
He said the case should act as an eye-opener that remedial measures are urgently needed to curb the rising cases of delinquency among schoolchildren.
Source: The Star Online
