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Sarawak to profile incest perpetrators
Published on: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
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Kuching: The Sarawak Social Development Council (SDC) will profile the perpetrators and victims of incest before discussing further a proposal to castrate the perpetrators as a form of additional punishment, State Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah said day.She said the council, under her ministry, is expected to complete profiling of the perpetrators and victims by November this year.

Fatimah said the police, Medical Department, Welfare Department and Women and Family Council are among agencies helping SDC to do the profiling.

"After we have completed the profiling, we will discuss the castrate proposal in-depth in our lab later," she told reporters after chairing the Women and Family Council meeting here.

The meeting was attended by the representatives of the police, medical department, welfare department, social development council and women non-governmental organisations.

She said the meeting agreed that the castration proposal need to be discussed at the lab which will also be attended by the representatives from the police, women non-governmental organisations, welfare department, medical department, village security and development committees, parents-teachers' association and school counsellors.

On the profiling of perpetrators and victims of incest, Fatimah said her ministry wants to know why such cases occurred.





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