Deep concern: Chong showing a picture of him talking to Wang during the press conference at Wisma MCA.
A 17-year-old girl who was sexually abused by her elder brother for eight years has been further traumatised when her brother sold lewd pictures of her online.
Wang (not her real name) and her 20-year-old brother have been living with relatives in Ipoh since their parents divorced 15 years ago.
Her ordeal started when she was nine.
“It started with him touching and fondling me and it progressively got worse from there,” she said over the phone at a press conference held by MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Seri Michael Chong at his office in Wisma MCA.
Identity crisis: H’ng showing his Mykad during the press conference organised by Chong (second from left).
A 65-year-old hawker, who has never been outside the country, is in a fix after the National Registration Department (NRD) clai-med that he had renounced his citizenship and is now a Singaporean.
H’ng Yu Choon, from Penang found that the NRD did not recognise him as a Malaysian anymore when his application for the Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) last year was rejected due a problem with his MyKad.
He went to the NRD in Penang to renew his MyKad last month and was told by an officer that their records showed he had migrated to Singapore recently and had opted to be a citizen of the island republic.
In the name of “love”, some women are willing to post compromising pictures of themselves on the Internet.
After the relationships have turned sour, those women often found themselves being blackmailed by their ex-lovers. MCA Public Service and Complaints Bureau head Datuk Michael Chong said seven such cases were referred to him last year.
Chong said two women lost almost RM85,000 when they were made to pay their ex-partners to stop them from circulating their nude photos.
TARGETED: Ng (right) claims she was duped by a pen pal and forced to marry a Chinese national. Tai is beside her.
It all started when a lonely woman reached out for friendship in a personal advertisement.
Little did she know that in less than two years, she would lose her savings, forced to marry a foreigner and narrowly escape being turned into a drug mule.
MCA Public Services and Complaint Department head Datuk Michael Chong reveals a 26 years old victim who was taken advantage of her disability by a China syndicate.
Double trouble: Tham (left) telling Chong and his assistant about her situation during a press conference at Wisma MCA in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
However, he left her soon after the surgery. “He was angry because I had spent so much money on the surgery,” she said, adding that the ex-boyfriend was also uncomfortable with the wounds on her body after the procedure.
Tham had borrowed RM13,000 from her father to pay for the procedure.
“The surgeon told me he would remove the fat from my hip and waist, and transfer this to my breasts.
“A week after the surgery, there was pus oozing out from where he had injected the fat,” said Tham.
She added that she had been conscious throughout the painful two-hour ordeal because the surgeon claimed he was not licensed to anesthetise her.
“My breast area also became swollen and turned black,” she said.
When Tham went back to the clinic, the surgeon had offered to re-do the entire procedure.
Victim Tan Khai Yien 29 and Datuk Michael Chong showing the x-ray during the press conference at Michael Chong office this morning.
Tan Khai Yien has had to live with a nut at her spinal area for a year after a doctor at a private hospital in Kuala Lumpur accidentally dropped it during surgery following a car accident.
A private hospital here left a nut in a woman’s body during spine surgery with metal implants using nuts and bolts last year.
"I am disappointed with the negligence and irresponsibility of the doctor in treating my injury," Tan Khai Yien, 29, told a press conference at the MCA Public Complaints Department today.
Relating her experience, Tan said she underwent surgery to treat a spine injury in October 2008 after she was involved in a car accident.
"After the surgery, the orthopaedic surgeon informed me that a nut had accidentally fallen into the operated area, very close to my spine where the metal implant was placed," she said.
"However, the surgeon assured me that the nut is not harmful and can be removed together with the fixture of the metal implant a year later without complications," she said, showing her x-rays and CT scan to reporters.
In October, a day before Tan’s scheduled surgery to remove the metal implant, the surgeon claimed that the fallen nut, which has shifted from its original position, could not be removed as it is located very close to a blood vessel.
Only the metal implant was removed while the fallen nut remained in around her spine.
"The doctor told us there was nothing else he could do. When my family and I said it was his mistake and he had given an assurance to remove it, he refused to do so," Tan said.
"When we said we could take legal action against him and the hospital, the doctor said we could go ahead and sue him but we will only be wasting our time."
Dissatisfied with the orthopaedic surgeon’s response, Tan sought a second opinion at Gleneagles Hospital here and was advised to undergo surgery to remove the nut.
"The doctor, who asked me to do a CT scan, said the nut is only 1cm away from my blood vessel and since it is moving in that area, it may very harmful to me later on," she said.
"We did not know who to turn to after the surgeon washed his hands over the case, so we sought MCA’s help and spoke to Datuk Michael Chong," she added.
Chong said Tan’s family is considering legal action against the doctor and the hospital but a decision can only be made after Tan’s operation, scheduled tomorrow, to remove the nut.
He added that he will raise the matter with the health minister.
