KUALA LUMPUR: A father lodged a police report recently after his daughter received rape threat in school.
In a viral post by the father Nazri Ahmad on Facebook, he said his daughter's schoolmate did not only make such a threat, but also acted aggressively towards her.
He said his daughter was sitting down on the floor of the school's foyer with her friends when the boy stared at them.
When they caught him doing so and confronted him, he allegedly asked if they wanted to be raped, said the father in the posting.
On the same day when the school session was about to end, the group of friends saw the same boy and warned him that they would report him to the teachers, he said.
"He (the boy) replied, 'if you report, I will rape you'. My daughter hit his arm with a mineral water bottle, but he then held and shook her head before pulling her tudung.
"He then ran away.
"They reported the matter to the teacher who was nearby but unfortunately, the teacher did not notice the incident (and that) they will inform the school (about it)," he said in the long posting recently.
The father who was there to pick up his child was then informed of the incident and went on to search for the boy.
He called him out, but the boy ran into the school.
The teachers who witnessed it explained that he is an autistic boy.
"I asked them, is being autistic means he is allowed to act in such manner without action (taken against him); he can make sexual assault without consequences?
"When it happens to my own daughter, (do) you want me to stay silent?
"(Do you) want me to wait until something happens before action can be taken, sorry I am not like that," he said.
He took his daughter and lodged a report at Bukit Jelutong police station before she was referred to University Malaya Medical Centre to undergo tests.
He said that he will leave the matters to the hands of the authorities.
"This post can create awareness, at least because such matters cannot be taken as a joke or even seriously.
"Please do not normalise the actions I have written (in the posting). Advise your children and family to come forward when such cases happen.
"Seek help," he added.
The post went viral and was shared over 3,000 times at the time of writing.
When contacted, Shah Alam district police chief Assistant Commissioner Mohd Iqbal Ibrahim confirmed the report lodged.
"We will issue a press statement on it," he said.