Chapter Ten: Research Development

Anti Date Rape

CHAPTER TEN:
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10.1 Research on rape victims characteristic 10.1.1 Rape victims Age

10.1.2 Rape victims sexual history

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10.1.3 Rape victims beauty

10.1.4 Rape victims skin color

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10.1.5 Rape victims hair

10.1.6 Rape victims body shape

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10.2 Online Survey

The online survey was conducted on the 9th of July 2012 and closed on the 15th of July 2012, or a weeks duration with a total of 50 respondents. The survey aims to calculate the level of rape issues awareness, the target audiences characteristic and lifestyle. Based on the overall results, 94% of the respondents (47 people) know about the rape issue that is happening recently and they know and heard about it mostly from social networking site. However, although they know about the rape issue, but they do not know how to prevent themselves from being raped.

10.2.1 Survey Results

Question 1 Gender

QUESTION 1

Gender
Fem ale 2% Male

98%

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Question 2 Age group

QUESTION 2

Ag Group e
Age Group 80 60 40 20 0 0 below 15 16-20 21-29 32 2 30-39 2 above 40 64

Question 3 Race

QUESTION 3

Race
Chinese 6% Malay 6% 0% Indian Others

88%

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Question 4 Status

QUESTION 4

S tatus
Married Single 4% In a relationship

36% 60%

Question 5 Education

QUESTION 5

Incom Rang e e
7% 19% below RM500 RM500-RM1000 22% 52% RM1000-RM2000 RM2000-RM3000

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Question 6 Income Range

QUESTION 6

Incom Rang e e
Incom e 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 7 21 18 2 2 50

Question 7 Geographical Location

QUESTION 7

Geog raphical L ocation

Urban Sub-urban

22%

78%

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Question 8 Do you enjoy nightlife?

QUESTION 8

The question above investigates the lifestyle of the respondents whether they did enjoy going out at night. The result shows that 60% of the respondents enjoy nightlife while 40% of the respondents prefer not going anywhere at night.

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Question 9 How often will you hang out at night?

QUESTION 9

The question above investigates the frequency of the respondents going out at night. The chart shows that 2% of the respondents going out almost every night, 32% of the respondents prefer few times a week. There is 22% of the respondents prefer to go out twice a week and 30% go out once a week. There is also 14% of the respondents prefer to go out once a month.

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Question 10 If so, where you will hang around at night?

QUESTION 10

The question above investigates the places of the respondents that they will hang out at night. The result shows that most of the respondents enjoy their nightlife in the dance club which consists of 35% while 25% inside the cinema. Caf consists of 26% of the respondents would hang out mostly. There are 9% of the respondents who hang out at their friends house and 5% of them prefer to stay at home.

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Question 11 Who will you hang out with?

QUESTION 11

The question above investigates the people of the respondents that they will hang out with at night. The result of the pie chart reveals that 70% of the respondents enjoy hanging out with their friends while 22% with their partners. There are only 4% of the respondents who will spend their time mostly with their parents. There are also 4% of the respondents prefer to hang out with acquaintances.

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Question 12 Do you know about the rape issue that is happening recently?

QUESTION 12

The question above investigates the awareness level of rape issue that is happening recently among the respondents. There are 94% of the respondents knowing that what is happening recently involving the rape issue in their daily life. Meanwhile, there are 6% of the respondents who are not sensitive and take concern on this issue.

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Question 13 If you have known or heard about rape, where have you heard about it?

QUESTION 13

The question above investigates the method in which the respondents get to know of rape issue. It appears that 46% of the respondents knowing the rape issue through social networking site. Newspaper is the second media which consists of 26% of the respondents whereas the news from television consists of 14%. Following next are sources from parents and friends, which consists of 4% and 8% respectively. There are 2% of respondents get and heard about rape from other sources while none of the respondents know the rape issue through radio.

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Question 14 Do you know what is date rape?

QUESTION 14

The question above investigates whether the respondents know about date rape. Not surprisingly, more than half of the respondents which makes up of 78% have never heard of date rape before. This may due to the reason of there are not any date rape related campaign held in Malaysia before. On the bright side though, there are still 22% of the respondents heard and know about what date rape actually mean.

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Question 15 Do you think the information on how to prevent from being raped is
sufficient enough in Malaysia?

QUESTION 15

The question above investigates whether the respondents received sufficient information on how to prevent from raped in Malaysia. The result shows a very negative view, with a dominant 92% did not receive sufficient information about rape while the other 8% remaining of respondents claiming that the information of rape is enough in Malaysia.

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Question 16 Are you aware of any campaign related to anti-rape held by any
organization?

QUESTION 16

The question above investigates the awareness of the respondents towards any campaign related to anti-rape held by any organization. The result shows a very negative view, with a dominant 92% did not receive sufficient information about rape while the other 8% remaining of respondents claiming that the information of rape is enough in Malaysia.

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Question 17 Have you heard about the personal safety product that may protect you
from being raped?

QUESTION 17

The question above investigates the knowledge of the respondents towards the personal safety product that can prevent from rape. 72% of the respondents are well aware of the personal safety product that may protect them from being harmed whereas 28% are not. This high percentage of safety awareness indicates that most of the women are aware of this issue.

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Question 18 Do you bring along your personal safety product wherever you go?

QUESTION 18

The question above investigates whether the respondents did bring along their safety guard (personal safety products) with them most of the time. There is a negative result showed in which 84% of the respondents did not bring them along although most of them know what are those product used to prevent from rapist whereas 12% bring them along. This high negative percentage does indicate the causes in which the number of rate issue is getting higher nowadays.

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Question 19 Do you know how to self defense when you are being raped?

QUESTION 19

The question above investigates whether the respondents did know how to self-defense and protect themselves when they are raped by the rapists. From the result, there is only 28% of the respondents know how to protect themselves when they are being attacked. Meanwhile, the remaining respondents which consist of 76% did not know how to protect and what to do when they are raped by rapists. This clearly shows that knowledge on how to self protect is still not sufficient for the women in Malaysia.

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10.2.3 Survey Conclusion

Based on the result of the survey, it is clear that most of the people are aware of the rape issue which is happening nowadays but not many people knows there are campaign held for this kind of specific issue. Besides, there are also quite a number of the people known about the personal safety product but most of them did not bring them along. This showed that the public is still not very concern and look deeper into this issue in which the anti-rape awareness is still not strong enough. Though the result indicates some feedbacks from the respondents, there is still much to be done to create the awareness to the public about the danger of rape issue nowadays. On another note, knowledge on prevention and self protect are the primary concern for the public especially women as priority.

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10.3 Interview During the initial process of calling up the women aids organization, I have emailed to the person-in-charged of the organization in order to ask on a few questions about rape issue. But I was then received a call from the organization to go for an interview in order to know more about the issues. A proper interview session was then scheduled few days later. During the interview, I was referred to Jessie Ang, who is one of the social worker in Women Aids Organization. She explained and briefed me about what services their organization does provide especially for the women and told me few cases that had happened to the rape survivors which are private and confidential.

10.3.1 Initial interview through Hotmail

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10.3.2 Visit to the WAO

The head quarter of Women Aids Organization

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Some flyers, books and brochures that I get from the interview

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10.3.3 Interview Conclusion

I get to know some of the rape cases which happened involved young adults are mostly from date rape. Most of the rape survivors are being raped by the person they trust and know (such as their friends, boyfriends). Besides, Jessie does claimed that the reason young adults are being raped is due to the misuse of alcohol and drugs to make an unsuspecting female become sleepy and sedated thus making the female unable to consent to sex. And this mostly happened in night club which there are more advantages for the suspects or perpetrators to rape.

10.4 Others (news)

10.4.1 Four Russians guilty of raping Malaysian student Four wealthy Russians who used an iPhone to film themselves gang-raping a Malaysian student at an exclusive private college in London are facing jail Tuesday. The group had been in Britain for just two weeks when they carried out the horrific two-and-ahalf hour attack on the Malaysian teenager at the 30,000-per-year college. The Russians, aged between 19 and 23, gave a sickening running commentary - and even filmed themselves boasting about what they were going to do to her the day before. The prosecution fear that she may have had her drinks spiked as she was too drunk to consent. Oleg Ivanov, 23, Norayr Davtyan, 22, Armen Simonyan, 19, and 23-year-old Gregory Melnikov all denied rape but were unanimously convicted by a jury at Woolwich Crown Court yesterday. Davtyan described the girl as a 'machine' and in the witness box referred to her as a 'sl**'. The court heard that Ivanov expressed 'pity' for the victim, when they noticed she was crying but was talked out of it by his friend Davtyan. Peter Clement, prosecuting, said: 'Various members of the gang of four watched each other, encouraged each other, and gave a running commentary as to what they had done and what they were going to do to their fellow student. 'They referred to her merely in the abstract as "her" or "she" and in the course of the incident one of the four even has to ask another "What's her name?'' International water polo player Davtyan was holding a party at his dorm at the exclusive college in South London on January 21 this year which the girl attended. She had a shot of whisky at the party before going to a disco at the school. Although there is no concrete evidence her drink was spiked, she felt 'funny, dizzy and peculiar' and was clearly intoxicated before going back to the party and vomiting then falling asleep. The next time she awoke, a man was having sex with her but she was unable to move, the jury heard. She told police: 'I just wanted him to stop, I couldn't wake up, I couldn't stand up, I felt really, really, really tired, I couldn't do anything. I couldn't move my hand... 'I just

Chapter Ten: Research Development wanted to close my eyes, I just wanted to die, I did not consent to it.' Clements added: 'Relatively early on in the footage Mr Ivanov says in Russian "She is crying" but it didn't deter him or any of the others at any point. 'He said "I feel pity for her" but this is only after he and others had had sex with her. 'As she left, Davtyan told her that she should not tell anyone about what had happened because she would be the one who was "embarrassed" and "ashamed" but she ignored his warnings and went to a pal before calling the police. The four men were all unanimously found guilty of rape at Woolwich Crown Court. Despite Simonyan texting Davtyan the next day to tell him to delete the footage which spanned between 12.38am and 3.10am it was still on his iPhone when he was arrested. Only Ivanov received legal aid and the rest of the group were able to pay for their own top QCs. They had denied raping the teen. In the harrowing footage shown to the court, she can be seen barely moving. They said she was a 'sl**' who 'willingly consented' but they were unanimously convicted by a jury of seven men and four women after an eight-week trial. They sat emotionless in the dock as the verdicts against them were read out but a cry was heard from the family members in the public gallery. Davtyan was convicted on two counts of rape, Melnikov was guilty of rape and attempted rape while Ivanov and Simonyan were both convicted of one count of rape. They were remanded in custody until they are sentenced Tuesday.

10.4.2 Two students raped by boyfriends SEGAMAT: Due to deception by their boyfriends, two secondary school students were victims of rape and one of them is now seven months' pregnant. In the first incident on June 16, a 17-year-old student who attends a school in Jalan Muar-Segamat here, claimed that she was raped twice by her boyfriend. A police spokesman said the student is sitting for her Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia this year. She had claimed that she was in a relationship with the 19-year-old suspect, who worked at a cleaning company. Her boyfriend had invited her to go on an outing to Segamat but before doing so, he had brought her to his house in Taman Seri Kaya."The victim was suspicious but he gave the excuse that he wanted to change his clothes before going on the trip. The police said the suspect had raped her twice before sending her home. The victim later told her family about the incident before lodging a report at Segamat police headquarters, three days after the incident. In a separate case, a Form Five student is seven months' pregnant after being raped by her boyfriend in November last year. The victim was only 16 during the incident, when she was taken by her boyfriend to a hotel and raped. The suspect, who is from Jabi, allegedly promised to marry her. However, the suspect disappeared but was arrested on July 1. Meanwhile, Segamat police chief Supt Hanafi Daud, when contacted, confirmed the two cases but declined to comment.

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10.4.3 Raped student continues studies after delivering KUALA LUMPUR - A 25-year-old university student from Kuala Lumpur, who became pregnant after being raped by a married man, has continued with her studies after giving birth recently, reported China Press. The student said she had befriended the man, who has three children, three years ago and since then, he had always treated her well. However, recently, the man spiked her drink and raped her in the car. The daily reported that she had tried to abort the child in the earlier stages of her pregnancy but failed. The student finally confessed to her family about her situation when she was seven months pregnant.

10.4.4 House buyers rob, sexually assault property agent KUALA LUMPUR: A female real estate agent was tied-up, stripped naked and sexually assaulted by a couple who was surveying a condominium with her. The victim, in her 30s, was also beaten up and her Toyota Vios driven off while she was left locked in the condominium unit in Mont Kiara alone for hours. A police source said that the womans husband had noticed that she had not returned from work on Thursday evening and had lodged a missing persons report in Kepong. However, it was not until about 4am Friday that police received a public tip-off about a woman sobbing and pleading for her life. Rushing to the scene, a police team broke through the units door and found the property agent still tied up and without her clothing. She was then sent to hospital for treatment. The victim told policemen that she was showing the suspects, a man and woman, the unit when they had suddenly locked the doors and attacked her. The woman suspect had apparently stood and watched while her male accomplice molested the victim. Weve never heard of such a case and it may be a new modus operandi to target vulnerable lone female property agents. It is really despicable that theyve not only robbed her but also sexually assaulted her, said a police source. The source urged the public, especially female saleswomen, to always be on the alert. When contacted, Kuala Lumpur CID chief Ku Chin Wah denied knowledge of such a case. However, Brickfields district police chief Wan Abdul Bari Wan Abdul Khalid confirmed the incident, but said the case has been taken over by the Kuala Lumpur D11(Sexual Crimes and Child Abuse) Division. This latest case comes at the heels of another missing persons report of 42-year-old female real estate agent last Wednesday, and who was found murdered at the Batu Dam in Ulu Yam yesterday. According to news reports, Cheng Chai Moi had left her house in Jinjang early on Tuesday to meet a client over the sale of a house. Her

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10.4.5 Warning to those going to KL: Woman driver almost raped at The Curve A girl's harrowing experience of her kidnap attempt in a car park at The Curve in KL has been making its rounds on Facebook. STOMPer catsy thinks that this story should be a warning to all, that one can never be too vigilant whether you're at home or in foreign land. The STOMPer says: "I happened to be browsing Facebook as usual when I came across this girl's note about her escape from a kidnapping incident at The Curve, Mutiara Damansara in Malaysia. "She explained how she managed to escape from two men, one Malay and the other Indian, from the car park of the shopping mall. "They held a meat cleaver against her throat and the Indian man even started to make sexual advances towards her. "Thankfully, by acting at the right moment, she made her escape. "This really reminds me just how vulnerable we females are, whether at home or in foreign land. "The few pointers she gave, such as how to get into a position of escape, are valuable advice. "Let this be a warning to females travelling alone: it always pays to be extra vigilant and careful when you're on your own, even at a car park!"