OP Global: 13 children believed to be sodomised, police open IP against four men - IGP

KUALA LUMPUR: Thirteen children at shelter homes that were raided by the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) in an operation, codenamed Op Global, recently, are suspected to have been sodomised.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain said this was based on the medical screening carried out on the 13 victims, who were from shelter homes in Selangor and Negeri Sembilan.

He said the police had opened four investigation papers (IP) against four men for an offence under Section 14 of the Sexual Offenses Against Children Act 2017.

Regarding the 402 occupants of the shelter homes who were rescued during Op Global last Wednesday, Razarudin said health screening had been conducted on 392 of them, comprising 202 men and 190 women.

He said the remaining 10 victims are persons with disabilities and autistic, who are below the age of 18.

The 10 victims, together with 49 children below the age of five years, have been handed over to the Social Welfare Department to be temporarily housed at its shelter homes in Bukit Beruntung, Cheras and Seremban, he added.

He said that based on police interviews with the victims, it was found that they had been separated from their parents since they were two years old.

Some of them had not met their parents for years as the parents are abroad, such as in Saudi Arabia and Turkiye, at the behest of the company" he told a press conference at the Kuala Lumpur Police Training Center here today.

-- BERNAMA

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