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The Child Act, 2001 defines ‘child’ to be anyone below the age of 18 years.

Section 31(1)(a) of that Act makes it an offence if any person who, being a person having the care of a child, abuses, neglects, abandons or exposes the child in a manner likely to cause him physical or emotional injury or causes or permits him to be so abused, neglected, abandoned or exposed.

Section 32 of the same Act provides that it is an offence for any person who causes or procures any child or, being a person having the care of a child, allows that child to be on any street, premises or place for the purposes of

(a) begging, receiving alms, whether or not there is any pretence of singing, playing, performing or offering anything for sale; or

(b) carrying out illegal hawking, illegal lotteries, gambling or other illegal activities detrimental to the health and welfare of the child.

On 23rd August, 2008, on our way up to Permatang Pauh for the by-election, we stopped at the Tapah lay-by for some R & R.

Whilst most ended up at the KFC restaurant, Bernard, Marina and I headed to the main food court for some teh tarik and coffee.

Whilst having our drinks, this young child aged 13 approached us.

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written by Tompios, December 23, 2008 09:20:45

Tahi mati orang jelas nampak tapi tahi mati sendiri sebesar Mt. Kinabalu gagal dilihat. Developing teenagers doing something good (cycling) for community prohibited but to let those children in the street doing illegal things are permissible.

cannot wait the PDRM busy to catch those street children in Sinsuran, Bangunan KWSP and Api-Api Centre in Kota Kinablu for 'cycling' day by day illegal things.

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written by hellosunshine, December 23, 2008 09:27:14

Wow! The mature comments and observations by the JERIT minors made more sense than all the comments made so far by a senior government servant. Really malu lah.

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written by Ken Liew, December 23, 2008 09:45:34

Kids.Our Future.thats why the new comers of general election will never vote for the OLD THINKING (or NONE THINKING) BN.Either we Die here, then letting our Kids or our future suffer a long dead.Sacrifice have to be made for the future, and BN will never sacrifice themself.

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written by chanatak, December 23, 2008 11:22:35

Ahhh, this guy shows his true calling as a true blue UMNO-trained Hadhari liar.He will have a tremendous future in UMNO with his natural talent for abuse of law and telling lies

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written by PRman, December 23, 2008 11:56:17

That's for the information. Its a no brainer that our police force abused power!

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written by carribeanking7, December 23, 2008 14:09:33

Another good reason that we need the IPCMC bill to be passed,how can we expect the police to investigate its own wrongdoings,more so a police force with a tainted numero uno.

In any other country DCP Khalid would have resigned in disgrace,he is lucky that the Malaysian rakyat are tamer than the ones in Greece and Thailand.

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written by The Hammer, December 23, 2008 16:50:11

Anyone got the pix of the yellow tape around the cyclist? Maybe our beloved Sultan will think twice or thrice before making any support to the DCP after seeing it.
The Sultan should take back the title from this DCP.!

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