RE: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,136638,00.html?
8 GANG MEMBERS CHARGED WITH RAPE, CRIMES
23 July 2007
A MONTH ago, she was brutally robbed and gang-raped while her boyfriend lay unconscious just metres away.
Now, 20-year-old May and her boyfriend, Ah Li, 22, want to come to Singapore to work and start a new life.
Ah Li's older brother said that the two of them, who now live and work in Pontian, Johor, are still recovering from the attack.
Ah Li, who was beaten up and slashed several times on the leg with a parang, still needs crutches to walk and about a month or two to recover.
May, a salesgirl, has a brother and sister who are already living and working in Singapore, so the couple will probably live with them.
The 11 Jun incident led to widespread public outcry against the surge of violent crimes in Johor.
A group of four knife-wielding men abducted the couple near the Second Link, and drove some 40km to an empty hut at a forested area at Tampoi Indah before raping the girl.
China Press reported the couple's plans together with the news that eight men were charged in court on Friday for multiple counts of rape, unnatural sex, robbery and causing grievous hurt to four sets of victims - including the four men who attacked May and Ah Li.
All eight, aged between 19 and 31, are members of the same gang. Several were charged for being involved in more than one of the four cases, which took place in separate locations between 22May and 11 Jun, reported the New Straits Times.
Two of the men - including a 31-year-old who is married with a child - were charged with raping May and forcing her to perform unnatural sex. A 29-year-old man was charged with raping her, while a fourth man, 27, a Malaysian who works as a wireman in Singapore, was charged with performing unnatural sex with her.
All eight pleaded not guilty. The next hearing will be held on 26 Sep.
Reminds me of this line in:
Catch me if you can
Leonardo Di Caprio, Tom Hanks, Jennifer Garner, Martin Sheen, Christopher Walken, Amy Adams, Nathalie Baye
"You will be caught, it is a mathematical certainty"
hope kena 24 strokes before hang. i know its impossible but i would like them to be tortured to death.
sorry but i pray for death sentence for the rapists.
now the prosecuter will present all the evidence and witnesses to testify. ho ho ho.
For great justice! Take off every cane!
Maybe the eight plead not guilty is real one lei? Maybe is the police anyhow catch 8 people to be scapegoat so that the public in msia will think justice is served and stop protesting lei? U never know sia. It's a corrupted country remember.