PENANG, Oct 8 – The father of a 14-year-old pregnant girl today claimed that the police were dragging their feet in the investigation into his daughter’s rape case.
The 44-year-old businessman, who spoke to reporters at his house here, urged the police to show more concern and speed up their investigation, saying his daughter was six months pregnant and the rape suspect was still at large.
“It has been three months since I lodged the police report but the investigating officer has failed to settle my daughter’s case,” he said.
The man said his daughter was raped by a 23-year-old man who was in a relationship with her sometime last year and as a result she kept skipping classes and finally dropped out of school early this year.
He said that when he called up the officer to ask for an update on the case two weeks after lodging the report, the investigating officer told him to wait, saying there were “too many cases to investigate”.
However, he said, he was told by a policeman that the police had raided the man’s house near Paya Terubong a day after he had lodged the report but the man no longer lived there.
“I would not want anyone to suffer the same fate as my daughter and hope that the police will seriously investigate and bring justice for my daughter,” he said.
He also said that the man was still trying to contact his daughter by sending SMS messages to her mobile phone which was now kept by him.
Georgetown OCPD ACP Azam Abd Hamid said he would question the investigating officer.
“Action will be taken against the officer if he is found guilty of the offence (of delaying the case),” he said. – Bernama
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