Youth beaten up for allegedly molesting six-year-old girl in Miri

 

MIRI (15/12/2016): Shoppers at a commercial centre here beat up a youth who was found molesting a six-year-old old girl and unzipping her pants before making a citizen's arrest. 

They hauled him to the security guards and alerted the police mobile unit. The youth was arrested. 

The incident happened at the E-Mart commercial centre in the Kuala Baram district some 20km north of Miri city on Wednesday evening.  

Miri police chief Asst Comm Khoo Leng Huat confirmed the incident.  

"They saw the youth forcing himself on her and fondling her private parts while trying to unzip her pants,  and swiftly intervened. 

"The top floor is a secluded place where kitchen equipment are kept. 

"The youth was beaten up before he could do worse things to the girl. He was taken to the security office before the police were alerted. 

"We (police) call on parents to be more careful with their children when they are in public places," he said here Thursday.  

Initial investigation showed that the six-year-old victim was the daughter of a trader who was operating a stall in the vicinity.  

The police believed that the molester is an Indonesian but there were no personal identification documents found on him.  

He had been placed in the police lock-up pending further probe.  

The victim has been sent to the Miri hospital for check-up.