COMMENT | Kelantan police chief Yusoff Mamat has been subject to critical public opprobrium for suggesting that girls involved in statutory rape cases be criminally indicted too, apart from the adult male perpetrator.

In justifying his bold proposition, he argued almost 90 percent of statutory rape cases are consensual in nature.

To be fair to him, the 90 percent figure was not a figment of his imagination. According to him, the statistical number is in fact derived from police investigations.

He also believed the law is more geared towards prosecuting men, even though in a plethora of statutory rape cases, both parties are essentially partners in crime.

Despite the fact that the home minister was relatively quick to conclude that Yusoff’s view is merely a personal one, Yusoff seems to be serious in his...