Loh Cheng Kooi

By 5pm on Monday, Nov 28, the news of your release had gone viral. It was unbelievable. I shouted with joy when I heard the news! I had many sleepless nights as I lay on my comfortable bed with pillows thinking of you in detention. How you were kept awake in your tiny cell with two light bulbs on twenty four hours a day, with no sense of day or night. I worried about your health as you were being kept in solitary confinement, in a windowless cell.

It was recently reported that parents of some children in a school in Hulu Selangor were furious that no action has been taken against a teacher who was allegedly caught molesting at least nine students for months despite the parents’ complaints to the district education department (The Star, May 21, 2016).