Confessed sexual predator gets treatment
KUALA LUMPUR: City police yesterday referred the Rumah Victory sexual predator who confessed to abusing at least 10 underage boys for psychiatric evaluation.
In response to The Malay Mail cover story yesterday that the 53-year-old ex-newspaper cameraman was a “walking time bomb”, City CID chief SAC II Datuk Ku Chin Wah said: “Legally, we cannot hold him longer than necessary. We only realised his depression and tendency to commit suicide after his confession when he met with DSP Choo Lily (head, sexual investigation department) again yesterday evening.
“We have referred him to the hospital for psychiatrist evaluation.”
Police sent the man, who admitted to molesting at least 10 boys aged nine to 14 while working as a volunteer at the children’s and youth renewal life centre, off Jalan Klang Lama, to Hospital Kuala Lumpur about 3pm.
He will undergo tests at the psychiatric unit where doctors will evaluate and attempt to treat him to competency.
A psychiatrist said competency refers to an individual’s ability to understand “the seriousness, the nature and the severity” of the case against him.
The Paper That Cares had bared the ex-Pressman’s potentially explosive state of mind following an email from him to the paper’s editor-at-large, Frankie D’Cruz.
In seeking psychiatric care, he wrote about life in “isolation” and the nightmares he was enduring, saying “my brain is going to explode any moment”.
He expressed his fears just as child abuse experts, child sex activists and psychiatrists raised questions on why the man had been released on unconditional police bail and left to fend for himself.
They also asked why authorities failed to respond to his plea for psychiatric treatment after voluntarily making a police statement last Saturday.
They were also concerned the man could interfere with witnesses and victims as he was left free without any police monitoring.
The ex-Pressman had made disturbing revelations that he abused the boys under his care between early last year and July this year at the centre.
The confessed homosexual first made the sobering disclosures to D’Cruz, who subsequently lodged a police report against him.
Three boys have to date confirmed they were sexually abused by him.
The ex-photographer, now a webmaster with a multinational, is being investigated under Sections 354 and 377e of the Penal Code that carry punishments ranging between seven and 10 years and whipping.
Section 354 relates to assault or use of criminal force against a person with intent to outrage modesty while the other pertains to inciting a child to an act of gross indecency.
Suspect remanded, home to be sealed
DETAINED: The Rumah Victory supervisor escorted by a police officer to KL police headquarters
Federal police CID deputy director Datuk Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said the man, a supervisor at the children’s and youth renewal life centre, off Jalan Klang Lama, had been remanded until Nov 6.
The suspect, 42, was being investigated under the Children Act 2001 for child abuse.
The Welfare Department is expected to seal the premises, a bungalow in Jalan Sepakat 8, today.
Children who have parents will be returned to their families while those without were transferred to shelter homes under the supervision of the Welfare Department.
It is learnt the suspect was detained after his statement was recorded at Kuala Lumpur police headquarters on Tuesday.
Checks on his background showed he had a previous record for a drug-related offence.
A 17-year- old resident of Rumah Victory was also released after his statement was recorded.
Police interviewed all 21 residents of the home to determine the extent of the crimes, which also includes allegations of the boys being used as drug runners and drug trafficking at the centre.
The police swung into action after an ex-newspaper cameraman made stunning revelations he sexually abused boys at the centre.
The man, who is also a student acupuncturist, also spoke of alleged voyeurism involving a staff who photographed boys bathing and moving bowels.
Allegations of naked photos of boys also surfaced.
A staff member also allegedly forced a nine-year-old boy to masturbate in front of other children recently.
A donor was alleged to have been allowed to take two boys on a rendezvous from morning till night against the home’s regulations. The centre was managed by ex-drug addicts.
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