Before even the paraquat case involving 14-year-old G Thiyaggurudeen, who is Muslim on paper, has been solved, another case has cropped up in Sarawak.

This time it involves a 13-year-old Iban girl Sabrina anak Ngumbang who was allegedly forced into conversion by a school teacher and others.

The girl lodged a report with the police station in Lutong on March 25, stating that on March 14 at about 2.30pm, she and five other students were taken by a school teacher to a house in Samling, Kuala Baram in Miri.

At the house, the students were allegedly taken into a room where they were taught to recite a Muslim prayer, and thereafter given a cash award of RM200 each.

"On leaving the room, another person gave me a cash amount of RM50. I was then given the prayer veil to put on and along with it other prayer accessories," she stated in her report.

The student was then allegedly told that she would be brought to the Islamic Religious Department on March 16.

The reason she had lodged the police report is to stop the teacher concerned from disturbing her and for the school to take further action.

It is learnt that the student, along with her family members, worship at Tudan Methodist Church, whose two "cell leaders", known only as Susanti and Doti, were called in to give their statements at the Miri police station.

According to the church pastor, Lim Biu, both Susanti and Doti have cooperated with the police.

"We hope that an investigation would be carried out immediately," he said.

At the same time, church leader Wong Kung Kui of the Tudan Methodist Church said that other concerned parents have also contacted the school principal, whom he claimed, is "fully aware of the case of two of its teachers sent from the Peninsular trying to proselytise the young people."

Kung said the principal has a list of names of students who have been approached by the teachers, or have been secretly brought to places outside the school to teach them how to wear the prayer veils.

"The school authorities have been doing their best to counsel the students. However, as parents, we too have to be on the watch," he added.

In the Negri Sembilan case, Thiyaggurudeen claimed that he was detained by his school teachers and the Negri Sembilan Religious Affairs Department (Jheains) at an Islamic missionary centre in Port Dickson on Feb 13.

He later attempted suicide by drinking paraquat, with his father claiming that it was due to his son being concerned that religious authorities would take him away.