The Star carries the following news, a heart wrenching news about a six years old boy found dead near his mother in a house in Sibu. It just wrenched me to imagine that anyone could possibly put the hands on a six-year-old kid, David Ting (photo left) and took the life away from him, more so if that person is the very person who brought him into this sinful world of ours. According to the OCPD of Sibu, the boy apparently died from strangulation.
What has the boy done to receive the death sentence? It is the worst kind of crime that a human being can do and no words can describe the cruelty, inhumanity and atrocity of that crime. Was it the mother or some else? Was the mother the victim or the villain? If not the mother, then who?
Children is the weakest in our society and they are often the victims of the circumstances which they have no say over or no option to disown. They are not only the victim of broken families but also the victims of the society which we have created. They are trusting, sweet, innocent, weak and defenceless against adults brutality and evilly.
How can anyone actually take it in the heart to even purposely harm them, not to mention murder them? The society is sick and there are many sick and despicable men and women wondering around us and it is almost indefensible against them.
Let the law be more responsive to the needs for the protection of the kids in the country and let there be a safety net for those children from broken families lest that they become another David Ting.
To be perfectly honest, i would recommend the harshest punishment for this kind of atrocity against children and none more appropriate than mandatory dead by hanging. Not so much an eye for an eye but we owe it to our kids to give them the best protection that a civil society can afford. Let the whole world know that not only thou shall not kill but the law and the society can never forgive those child-killer, period.
David Wong
28-01-2008
Nation Monday January 28, 2008MYT 5:06:38 PM
Woman and son found dead in Sibu
By JACK WONG
SIBU: A woman and her six-year-old son were found dead in their double-storey house at Jalan Langsat here.
Police have identified her as Hung Yu Yuin, 34, and her son, David Ting Yu Soon.
Sibu OCPD Asst Comm Shafie Ismail said Hung was found hanging from the ceiling of the sitting room and Ting's body was found on the floor at about 7.50pm on Sunday.
He said the boy was believed to have died of strangulation as a piece of nylon string was found at the scene.
ACP Shafie said police were investigating the motive behind the deaths.
A police party rushed to the house after receiving a telephone call from Hung's neighbours as they heard someone screaming in the house.
Police had to break down the front door as it was locked from the inside.
Sources said Hung had earlier quarrelled with her husband over some matters, and that he was not around when the tragedy happened.
What has the boy done to receive the death sentence? It is the worst kind of crime that a human being can do and no words can describe the cruelty, inhumanity and atrocity of that crime. Was it the mother or some else? Was the mother the victim or the villain? If not the mother, then who?
Children is the weakest in our society and they are often the victims of the circumstances which they have no say over or no option to disown. They are not only the victim of broken families but also the victims of the society which we have created. They are trusting, sweet, innocent, weak and defenceless against adults brutality and evilly.
How can anyone actually take it in the heart to even purposely harm them, not to mention murder them? The society is sick and there are many sick and despicable men and women wondering around us and it is almost indefensible against them.
Let the law be more responsive to the needs for the protection of the kids in the country and let there be a safety net for those children from broken families lest that they become another David Ting.
To be perfectly honest, i would recommend the harshest punishment for this kind of atrocity against children and none more appropriate than mandatory dead by hanging. Not so much an eye for an eye but we owe it to our kids to give them the best protection that a civil society can afford. Let the whole world know that not only thou shall not kill but the law and the society can never forgive those child-killer, period.
David Wong
28-01-2008
Nation Monday January 28, 2008MYT 5:06:38 PM
Woman and son found dead in Sibu
By JACK WONG
SIBU: A woman and her six-year-old son were found dead in their double-storey house at Jalan Langsat here.
Police have identified her as Hung Yu Yuin, 34, and her son, David Ting Yu Soon.
Sibu OCPD Asst Comm Shafie Ismail said Hung was found hanging from the ceiling of the sitting room and Ting's body was found on the floor at about 7.50pm on Sunday.
He said the boy was believed to have died of strangulation as a piece of nylon string was found at the scene.
ACP Shafie said police were investigating the motive behind the deaths.
A police party rushed to the house after receiving a telephone call from Hung's neighbours as they heard someone screaming in the house.
Police had to break down the front door as it was locked from the inside.
Sources said Hung had earlier quarrelled with her husband over some matters, and that he was not around when the tragedy happened.
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I agree totally with you that this sort of news can be very heart-wrenching, especially for those who have experienced the joys of parenthood. Parents who take the lives of their own flesh and blood are really not fit to be parents. One wonders why were they given children in the first place if they were not capable of being responsible enough to protect and defend rather than take the lives of their little ones. On the other hand, it may be that these individuals are suffering from mental and emotional illness so much so that they had actually lost their natural parental instinct and their sense of what is right and wrong. If so, the family members of those persons should have been more vigilant and should have brought them for treatment before any tragedy of this sort could have been allowed to happen. It's sad, very sad and heart breaking...especially when one remembers that this is not the first time it had happened. Remember one or two years ago when a mother suffering from depression brought her son, Jacky to a hotel room and killed him before swallowing some weedkiller herself. Unfortunately for her, she managed to survive and is now facing the murder charge, if I am not mistaken. This had happened in our dear Sibu town as well. We can only pray for the souls of these poor children.
Voon Lee Shan is morally corrupt!
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Friday/National/20080118173418/Article
Sarawak mission school to close down after being served eviction notice by landowner
By : Nancy Nais
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KUCHING: One of the few remaining mission schools in Sarawak, St Martin primary school in Muara Tuang, will likely shut down for good. Last November, it was sent an eviction notice from the five-hectare plot of land it occupies.
State Education Director Dr Julaihi Bujang said the 313 pupils in the largely Iban village have been transferred to Sekolah Kebangsaan Muara Tuang, SK Barangan and few other schools in the nearby the Semarahan district.
The trouble started last April, when the landowner Millah Kitat, through her legal counsel Voon Lee Shan, issued a letter giving the Anglican mission that runs the school an ultimatum: Buy the whole 12ha parcel of land on which the school stands or move out within a week.
Millah owns the land under Native Customary Rights (NCR).
When the school failed to move out within the deadline Voon, the DAP state assemblyman for Batu Lintang, served another legal letter demanding RM700,000 compensation within a week, claiming the school had trespassed on Millah's land.
To avoid further legal complications, the state Education Department ordered the school shut.
"The previous land owner Lian Teetat Emparu had divided the land for the Anglican mission to build the school but it was not legalised,” said Julaihi.
"There were some agreements drawn up by the late Emparu. The ‘agreement’ stated that the land would be ‘free of charge’, and the heir or heirs would not develop that portion of land alienated for the school," he said.
Since the agreement was not legalised, it became a point of dispute with Millah, Emparu's daughter, who inherited the land when he died.
"The legal summons issued to us is still on going. The landowner and her legal counsel did not give us much time to negotiate, and there is no way the education department of the mission can come up with the RM700,000 within seven days of the issuance of the letter, dated October 23, 3007," Julaihi said.
The state Education Department, meanwhile, has identified a piece of land near the old school and they have proposed to purchase it.
Julaihi said they are still waiting for the Education Ministry's approval, and this will take some time.
"It will take some time to pay the compensation demanded by the landowner, and it will definitely take more time to purchase land and build a school," he said.
David, you are not a woman and not a mother, so you don't understand. Instead of she herself dying and then let the child suffer, she would rather take him with her. In a way, this kind of motherhood may be the greatest. She wants her child to be with her. It is not necessary that life in this world is the best.
Man,
I presume that you are a man and thus you admit that you can't understand a woman and a mother. But i would have thought that a mother would sacrify everything for her own flesh and blood and would defend them with her own life and not take his life away.
Nobody even a mother has the
right to take the lives away from her children. Like Irene said unless she has lost her natural motherhood instint, there is no reason how she could kill her own kid with her own hands.
Man, i can not agree with you with your comment that she wants to be with him and thus kill him to accompany her, that is simply selfish and cold blooded. No matter what problem she encountered, there is always an alternative and anyone would be a better chioce than to take the life of your own six-year-old kid.
This world is not perfect, but should us kill our children because we "love" them and do not want them to live in this inperfect world? The answer lies in your heart as well.
Thank you,
David Wong
We wish that life can be happy for everyone. Something like this. You grow up. You get married. You have kids. Your kids have kids. You become a grandparent. Your kids are happy. Your grandkids are happy. Everyone is happy. However, life is not perfect. Sometimes you wish that your life can be different. Kids, what do they know ? There are situations whereby they become orphans. The people who give birth to them do not explain why they abandon them. So they grow up not really knowing what a family is. In India, children work instead of study. Do they know the meaning of having an education or may be they will tell you that they have to earn money to buy bread on the table. In Africa, children become child soldiers. Do they know it is wrong to murder with guns ? Do they know they actually do not have a future ? Would you like to know what are some of thoughts regarding kids who do not have a future like the working kids in India and the child soldier in Africa and elsewhere ? If we respect life, we would respect our kids. If somehow life is meaningless, then many things will become meaningless.
lIFE ITSELF IS THE MOST PRECIOUS THING THAT GOD GIVES TO US. IF LIFE IS NOT PRECIOUS, WHY DID GOD CREATED ADAM & EVE?
I AGREE WITH DAVID AND HIS POSTING SHOWS A MAN OF CHARACTER AND A POLITICAN THAT CARES. HOW MANY POLITICIAN ACTUALLY CARE TO GIVE A THOUGHT ABOUT THIS AND SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD?
TO THINK THAT A MOTHER TAKES THE LIFE THAT SHE CONCEIVED FOR 10 MONTHS IN HER BELLY IS SIMPLY 'OUT OF THIS WORLD'. SHE WAS SIMPLY WEAK AND SELFISH BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENED IN HER MARRIAGE CAN SIMPLY BE UNDONE BY DIVOICING HER HUSBAND AND START A NEW LIFE WITH HER SON.
WE HAVE SEEN UNTOLD NUMBERS OF GREAT MOTHERS WHO BROUGHT UP HER KIDS AS A SINGLE PARENT WITHOUT A WORD OF REGRET.
I FEEL SORRY FOR HER NOT BECAUSE OF HER FAMILY'S PROBLEMS BUT HER MENTALITY AND CHARACTERS. MAY BE SHE WAS ALONE BUT DIDN'T SHE HAS FAMILY AND NEIGHBOURS AND CHURCH FOR HER TO TURN TO, HER SON WENT TO THE KINDIGARTEN RUNS BY THE METHODIST CHURCH IN SIBU.
A premeditated murder as the following Chinese press report shows. No excuse at all because her son did not provoke her and it was not an instant lost of control and thus a first degree murder.
方友云遗书揭生活不如意 “我与孩子一起自杀”
（本报诗巫29日讯）双尸案方友云及陈富顺遗体进行解剖，死因确认方友云上吊死亡，而陈富顺则是被勒毙。 据警方消息指出，日前发生的双尸案悲剧，女死者方友云及其儿子陈富顺，遗体于昨天下午进行解剖，以鉴认死因，最终方友云被确认为上吊死亡，而其儿子陈富顺则是被勒毙。 陈富顺的双手手腕也被确认为利器割伤，而脖子则有明显的勒痕。 在案发现场，客厅留有大摊血迹，相信是方友云以利器割陈富顺的双手手腕而流下大量的血渍，不过由于不足以致命，加上担心陈富顺挣扎，以及大声喊叫，因此以尼龙绳紧勒其脖子。 据警方消息称，在女死者遗体解剖前，于女死者的口袋找到遗书，而遗书上，大部份是写著她不如意的生活。在遗书的第一段，就写著：我和孩子一起自杀。 警方也起回遗书作证。 据死者友人透露，死者家属于昨晚抵达诗巫，并且办理手续，于今早领出遗体。
Of course it is wrong to murder. Why do crimes occur ? Why do crimes don't occur ? Lawyers, I ask you. Why most of the people in this world do not commit crimes ? But then again why do some people in this world commit crimes ? May be if you step into the shoes of this particular woman, then you will know. No, I am not saying you agree with her actions. I am saying please understand her. We cannot always be living in heaven, do we ? It is good that Sibu wishes to be a city of love. May be Sibuians should consider seriously adopting all the abandoned kids. Let it not be just words or songs that talk about love. Let it be love in action. When I say adopt, I don't mean putting them in a centre. I mean really bringing them home and make them one of the family. If cannot, why ? No money ? But poor people also can bring up their children ? For you, you have no problem. You have a job. You have a loving spouse. You have your kids. You yourself is good. You have a situation whereby this sort of thing will not happen. But not everyone has your kind of situation. Not everyone has a loving spouse. Not everyone has kids who respect them. I am sure you know all about these sad cases. Can you understand their mental torture ? Can you understand their position ? Again don't misunderstand. But sometimes we have to understand the situation leading to the case.
Thank you all, I am glad that many took their time to say a few words about this tragedy. It shows that you all are basically kind-hearted and really care.
We might have different views and our opinions could differ but we respect each other's right to speak his mind.
If there is a conclusion, may be it would be fitting to say that if all of us could contribute our little parts in paying more attention to the peoples around us, then we can make a difference, then at least young David Ting did not die a "worthless" death afterall.
May all of us pray for him and his mother as well.
David Wong
1-2-2008
It is not a worthless death. This child's death and his mom's death speak volumes. If this child is still alive and his mom is still alive, it will be just another day when we go about our own business, thinking that the world is just so beautiful. How would we know if so and so is having a problem ? She or he wears a beautiful smile but inside, it is tears and more tears.
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