GEORGE TOWN, Dec 11 – According to the Penang Women’s Development Corporation (PWDC), there were a whopping 31,685 rape cases, 42,449 domestic violence cases and 24,939 cases are involving in the outrage of modesty were reported from 2000 to 2013.
“Based on the statistics issued by the Penang Women Centre for Change, an average 3,000 rapes were reported in Malaysia each year with only two of 10 cases reported. In other words, a girl or woman is being raped every 35 minutes somewhere in Malaysia,” said PWDC board of directors member, Yap Soo Huey.
Yap said the most of the rape cases involved victims below 16 years old. She said in 2013, the number of cases involving minors was as high as 2,111 cases. She said this in her speech at the closing of the ‘2015 Penang Goes Orange Campaign’ by Deputy Chief Minister 1 Datuk Mohd Rashid Hasnon here on Thursday.
The campaign organised by PWDC since Nov 6 was aimed at boosting awareness of violence against women and encouraging gender equality. According to the Home Ministry, 28,741 rape cases were reported from 2005 to 2014 with 16 percent (4,514 cases) of the cases taken to court where 2.7 percent (765 cases) were found guilty, Yap added.
