LELAKI WARGA ASING ROGOL OKU DIPENJARA 14 TAHUN DAN TIGA SEBAT

Lelaki warga asing rogol OKU dipenjara 14 tahun dan tiga sebat

KOTA KINABALU September 14, 2012: Seorang lelaki warga asing dijatuhkan hukuman penjara 14 tahun dan tiga sebatan rotan oleh Mahkamah Sesyen di sini kelmarin atas kesalahan merogol seorang remaja golongan orang kelainan upaya (OKU).

Timbalan Pendaftar Mahkamah Tinggi Zulkifli Abllah membuat keputusan itu di dalam kamarnya dan menjatuhkan hukuman itu terhadap Sius Toka, 47, selepas mengaku bersalah merogol mangsa yang berusia 15 tahun.

Dia didapati melakukan kesalahan itu pada 2 September tahun ini jam 4  petang dalam sebuah rumah di sebuah kampung di daerah Kota Belud.

Untuk itu, Sius didakwa mengikut Seksyen 376 (1) Kanun Keseksaan, yang memperuntukkan hukuman penjara sehingga 20 tahun dan sebat.

OKU PUNISHED FOR SUPPORTING OPPOSITION

Farmer claims punished for supporting opposition

DISHEARTENING: Frusis (centre), accompanied by the DAP members, after lodging a police report in Sri Aman yesterday.

KUCHING Mac 3, 2012: The life of farmer Frusis Lebi, who has deformed hands and feet, has recently turned into a living hell.

However, the hardship his family is presently experiencing has nothing to do with his deformity.

Things have fallen through the floor for this 51-year-old villager from Kampung Entulang Entawa in Sri Aman because he did not keep his political affiliations discreet.

During the run-up to the 10th state election in April last year, Frusis openly supported the opposition and even flew an opposition flag near his house, and because of that his RM300 monthly assistance from the Welfare Department, which he had been receiving for years, suddenly stopped last October.

Also halted were fertilizer and fruit seedling subsidies from the Agriculture Department.

USAHAWAN IKAN PATIN OKU TIMANG ANAK SULUNG

‘Aku pun boleh’

GEMBIRA...Mohd Khairi dan isterinya (kanan) gembira menimang cahaya mata sulung.

PEKAN: “Saya bersyukur impian insan cacat seperti saya menimang cahaya mata kini menjadi kenyataan. Hanya Allah saja yang mengetahui betapa bertuah dan gembiranya hati ini.

“Rasa rendah diri kerana cacat sebelum ini kini semakin terhakis dengan kehadiran anak lelaki yang akan menyerikan lagi rumah tangga yang dibina Mei tahun lalu,” kata Mohd Khairi Othman, 35, orang kelainan upaya (OKU) tanpa kedua-dua belah tangan dan kaki sejak dilahirkan.

THREE FROM SABAH SEEK HELP TO GET ARTIFICIAL LIMBS

Three from Sabah seek help to get artificial limbs

KOTA KINABALU: Three youngsters from the district of Tambunan, about 85km from here, are in need of prosthetic limbs.

Sylvester Maikun, a 22-year-old aspiring artiste from Kampung Kiawayaan, used to daydream about being a soldier while he watched his parents toil on the padi fields.

But a freak accident while riding pillion on his cousin's bicycle when he was 4 years old dashed his dreams.

His leg got caught in the bicycle wheel, causing him to fall and break his leg. It later got infected and had to be amputated.

Sylvester needs RM7,800 to buy a new above-knee prosthesis which will enable him to walk without limping.

"I've outgrown the current one which I got when I was still a teenager."

Another 22-year-old, Sixtus Lourence from Kampung Toboh, needs RM6,800 for a below knee prosthesis. He became an amputee when he was accidentally shot by a home-made gun 10 years ago.

Yan Faraini Jubilee, 16, from Kampung Tampasak Liwan is also in need of a prosthetic leg. The fourth former from SMK Garas, is the third of seven siblings to a farmer father and a housewife mother.

A new prosthesis would give her a confidence boost that she had been lacking since her leg was amputated in 2003.

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JURUTOL PAKAI BIKINI ?

Jurutol pakai bikini

BEIJING: Tugas sebagai jurutol bukan luar biasa bagi wanita di ibu kota China ini tetapi kemunculan seorang 'jurutol' baru berusia pertengahan umur, benar-benar mengejutkan pemandu kenderaan apabila hanya memakai coli dan seluar pendek ketika 'bertugas'.

Wanita itu dilihat mundar-mandir antara lampu trafik untuk memungut bayaran ‘tol’ daripada semua pemandu kenderaan yang menggunakan persimpangan Xihuamen dan North Street.

Laporan media tempatan menyatakan, wanita itu akan memberi isyarat kepada pemandu untuk memberhentikan kenderaan mereka sebelum mendekati tingkap kereta bagi memungut bayaran.

“Wanita itu akan menghalang kenderaan daripada meneruskan perjalanan sehingga pemandunya membuat bayaran. Kebanyakan pemandu akan membayar dan dibenarkan pergi,” kata laporan itu.

Bagaimanapun, sikap seorang pemandu sebuah kereta Honda berwarna hitam enggan berbuat demikian mencetuskan kekecohan.

“Wanita itu naik radang lalu memanjat kereta itu sebelum menendang cermin depan menyebabkan ia retak. Dia kemudian membuka kasut tumit tingginya dan mula memukul cermin tingkap sambil berteriak: “Kamu mahu bayar atau tidak?” lapor media.

Pertengkaran menyebabkan kesesakan lalu lintas dan polis tiba beberapa minit kemudian.

Wanita itu bagaimanapun berjaya melarikan diri. Seorang warga kota yang menjadi saksi kejadian berkata wanita terbabit mengalami gangguan mental dan kerap menahan kenderaan di jalan raya untuk meminta ‘tol’

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Xian Woman Stops Cars & Collects “Toll” Wearing Only A Bra

HUMAN RIGHTS PARTY (HRP) LAUNCHED

Hindraf’s P. Uthayakumar launched a new multiracial party called Human Rights Party (HRP) with an objective to champion the rights of marginalised sectors of all communities.

Uthayakumar also identified 15 parlimentary and 38 state assembly seats that the party would contest in the elections.

WANITA TERKECIL DUNIA

MUMBAI - Seorang pelajar India yang merupakan wanita paling kerdil di dunia, Jyoti Amge menerima undangan untuk muncul dalam sebuah program televisyen Britain terbitan Channel 4 esok, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Jyoti yang berketinggian 0.59 meter (23.5 inci) dan berusia 15 tahun selain memiliki saiz badan lebih kecil berbanding seorang anak saudaranya yang berusia dua tahun.

"Apabila saya memberitahu umur saya, ramai orang yang tidak mempercayainya," kata wanita kerdil itu.

Pelajar itu memiliki berat badan 5.4 kilogram iaitu meningkat empat kilogram berbanding beratnya semasa lahir.

Menurutnya, dia bercita-cita menjadi seorang aktres apabila dewasa dan dianggap sebagai selebriti di tempat kelahirannya, Nagpur, tengah India.

"Ketika berusia tiga tahun, saya sedar saya berbeza dengan kanak-kanak lain.

"Saya tidak takut atau kesal dilahirkan sebagai orang kerdil malah saya berasa bangga dengan perhatian yang diberikan," katanya - Agensi

PESARA TENTERA TERIMA PENCEN RM66.36 SEBULAN, RAYU BANTUAN

Seorang pesara tentera yang dikategorikan sebagai orang kurang upaya (OKU) dan menerima pencen RM66.36 sebulan, merayu kerajaan menilai semula kadar pencennya dan diberikan elaun sebagai pesara tentera yang cacat.

"Sejak Disember 2002 saya menerima pencen terbitan sebanyak RM66.36 sebulan, wang itu dibelanjakan untuk keluarga saya,"

"Saya mula mendaftar sebagai anggota tentera pada 11 Disember 1979, di awal perkhidmatan saya di tempatkan di Batalion 301 Askar Wataniah di Batu 11, Tanah Merah,"

"Bagaimanapun sampai sekarang saya tidak menerima sebarang pampasan dan elaun yang sepatutnya diterima sebagai pesara tentera yang cacat,"

Lans Koperal (B) Wan Mohd Afandi Wan Zain, 48,

DISABLED BUDDIES FIND THEIR NICHE AT HYPERMART

Sahril Adamuddin (left) and Mat Jamil Ramli are part of the 60 people with disability who are employed at Carrefour Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR, 2009/05/23: Twenty- five-year-old Mat Jamil Ramli spends his day at Carrefour creating press advertisements and leaflets on his computer.

Employed as a graphic designer, Mat Jamil would otherwise go unnoticed at the sprawling Carrefour head office floor in Subang, where hundreds of employees move around like bustling bees, but for the fact that the metre-tall lad uses his toes to type on his keyboard.

Born without hands, Mat Jamil counts himself lucky to have secured a job at Carrefour two years ago.

"Everyone here is friendly and helpful. It's like being part of a big family."

Sahril Adamuddin, 26, is Mat Jamil's lunch buddy, who sometimes helps the latter cut up his meat during meals. Wheelchair-bound Sahril works as a pricing clerk at Carrefour and, like Mat Jamil, he feels he is at the "right place".

Mat Jamil and Sahril are not the only people with disability (PWD) who work at Carrefour Malaysia. There are currently 60 PWD who make up two per cent of Carrefour's 3,423 workforce.

According to Carrefour human resource director Mohamad Fauzi Hassan, the company implemented the hiring policy two years ago when it employed 20 PWD at its stores nationwide.

The hypermarket hopes to hire about 400 PWD by 2012, making up five per cent of its expected 8,000 workforce.

Carrefour became part of the United Nations Development Programme's pilot project called Employment Model for PWD last year, under an agreement where UNDP provides job coaches for Carrefour to train the PWD.

Carrefour has also, on its own initiative, trained job coaches among its staff to cater to the hypermarket chain's expansion, Fauzi said.

These coaches are given special training, such as sign language and systematic instruction.

"To help them, the PWD are partnered with a Carrefour 'buddy' each. They are given on-the-job training under supervision until they are able to perform the tasks on their own."

He added that there were hardly any disciplinary problems among the PWD.

"They are enthusiastic and passionate about their work. Once, one of them fell ill but he insisted on coming to work. His parents, however, refused to allow him.

"So he made them come and explain to us that he was indeed ill. I told them they didn't have to come and that they only needed to call."

Fauzi said there were no restrictions as to where the PWD were placed in the hypermarket. They work in the head office as marketing executives, graphic designers, accounts executives and data entry clerks. At the store front, they are hired as clerks, security personnel and call centre and customer service representatives, among others.

While Carrefour's disabled personnel are independent, where they travel to and from work on their own, Carrefour is planning to provide accommodation and transportation in the future, through its Yayasan Carrefour.