KEEP TAB BEFORE ITS TOO LATE

Here is another extract which I found in the Star Newspaper. I also urge all parents to help keep tab of your children's daily activities.



Saturday April 4, 2009

Students get hooked on drugs after ‘try outs’

STUDENTS from a secondary school in Cheras became drug addicts after they were given “try out” drugs by dealers, Nanyang Siang Pau reported.

When the students become addicted, they were forced to beco-me runners for the dealers, it said.

The daily reported that the dealers looked for their victims at the 24-hour cyber cafes across the school.

Balakong state assemblyman Yap Lum Chin said he had received three complaints from parents that their children became addicts in the last two months and urged the police to look into the matter.

> Parents have been urged to first check on the whereabouts of their children if they received telephone calls claiming that they had been kidnapped, China Press reported.
Recently, many parents received calls alleging that their children were kidnapped, with the callers demanding a ransom for their release.

The latest case involved a kindergarten teacher who was told that her 13-year-old daughter had been kidnapped, and that the girl would be harmed if the family did not pay RM60,000 for her release.

The caller had let the girl’s elder sister hear her cry, it reported.

The teacher later found out that her daughter was safe in school just before she paid the ransom.

A police report was lodged.