Johor a haven for rapists and robbers

This is getting hard to stomach.

Just a day after this happened, another couple got abducted while filling up petrol along Pasir Gudang highway, Johor. The same nightmare of "slash and rape" happened.

How is it that petrol stations in Johor are so unsafe these days? Don't they have any workers there who could have taken some action to protect their customers?

This incident reminded me of what happened to Rosdee back in December 2005. That poor guy got his head hacked by a robber at a petrol station in JB. The picture of his shaven head with multiple stitches still give me the chills.

The criminals seem to be having a field day in Johor. A young woman was robbed and stabbed to death in her own bedroom last April while during the same month, another young girl died in the hands of a snatch thief in JB.

The crime prevention operation launched by Johor cops back in August 2006 seems to be more of a PR exercise than anything else.

If not, how else do you explain the unabated spate of serious crimes in this southern state?


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Another woman gang-raped (The Star, 14 June 2007)

JOHOR BARU: A group of men took a couple on a terror ride before raping the woman, the second such case in as many days here.

A 55-year-old contractor and his 35-year-old female friend had stopped at a petrol station along the Pasir Gudang highway at 10.30pm last week. As he was filling up, three men armed with parang overpowered him and forced both victims into the car. The assailants took the victims on a one-hour terror ride before stopping at a secluded area along the highway.

As in the case on Monday, the contractor was slashed in the leg when he tried to escape. With the injured victim watching helplessly, the men took turns to rape the woman before fleeing in another car driven by an accomplice. The victims lodged a police report after the incident.

On Monday, a 19-year-old girl was raped by three men as her boyfriend watched helplessly in Taman Tampoi Indah. Their car was rammed into by another car. Three men in the car then abducted the couple. The boyfriend was also slashed in the leg when he tried to escape.

In another incident, a doctor, in her 50s, fell and injured her head after two thieves on a motorcycle snatched her handbag while she was walking to her car in Taman Melody yesterday. Passers-by who saw the incident caught one of the suspects. He was handed over to the police.