Baby rape video sales is 'madness': Saifuddin

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17 Jul 2025 • 8:20 PM MYT
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By: Elill Easwaran, FMT

PUTRAJAYA: Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail (pic) on Wednesday revealed that a three-month-old baby had been raped, with video footage of the abuse reportedly distributed for sale.

“I was briefed at 12.30am. If you’re being briefed at midnight, it’s definitely a major issue, not a minor one,” he said in his speech at his ministry’s monthly assembly.

“A three-month-old baby was raped, recorded on video, and the video was sold. That’s madness.”

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“If it’s splashed on the front page, the public reaction becomes something else entirely, even though it may be just a single incident. So I’m not going to give much detail on that,” he said. - FMT