Let's not forget Sharlinie...

With all the excitement and news coverage on the upcoming polls, let's not forget Sharlinie whose family has been waiting for news of her whereabouts and safe return.

It’s already been five weeks since five-year-old Sharline was abducted while playing at a playground near her house in Kampung Medan, Petaling Jaya on Jan. 9.

Sadly, news coverage on Sharlinie and her whereabouts are getting less and less . We’re not getting anywhere. No new leads. Nothing. I don’t have a good feeling with every passing day. Will she ever be found? I pray that she will not be another Nurin.

In the meantime, another pilot was arrested, charged and fined AS12,000 by an Australian Court last Saturday for possessing child ponography . I picked up the news from Nuraina who posted it after someone alerted her.

He is with the Singapore Airlines. But he is a Malaysian.

Here's the Star report:

Thursday February 14, 2008

Aussies fine SIA pilot caught with porn RM33,000

SINGAPORE: A Singapore Airlines (SIA) pilot caught with pornographic material at Adelaide International Airport last Saturday has been charged and fined A$12,000 (RM33,500) by Australian authorities.

Captain Ng Kok Yauw, 41, a Malaysian national, was the third person arrested by the Australian Customs Service in less than a week as part of a crackdown on attempts to smuggle pornography into the country through Adelaide.

The other two cases involved a 41-year-old Singaporean whose identity is not known and another Malaysian – 23-year-old Ahmad Said, a co-pilot with Malaysia Airlines (MAS).

Australian media reported over the weekend that the MAS pilot was fined A$6,000 (RM17,760), while the Singaporean will appear again in Adelaide magistrate's court on Feb 25.

A spokesman for Australian Customs told The Straits Times that when Capt Ng was stopped and questioned by officers, he denied carrying any prohibited items.

But when they checked his laptop, they found “objectionable material depicting abhorrent sexual acts.” – The Straits Times / ANN

MAS co pilot fined for child porn...is there a link?

Ahmad Said, the Malaysia Airline co pilot who was convicted and fined by an Australian Court for having in his possession three video files of child pornography, could be proof that a child porn market exists in the country, says blogger Rocky.

Ahmad, 25, a father of two, got away with a fine of (Aust)$6,000.

Here's what Rocky wrote :

“ Nurin Jazlin's abduction and murder last year, and the abduction of 5 kids before her, had been linked to a child porn or snuff movie syndicate. The police have no proof of it yet but Ahmad Said could be proof of the existence of a child porn market in Malaysia.”

Which makes Nuraina wonder if Malaysia is a Hub for Child Pornography? Like her, I hope not and pray not.

But my friend, blogger Pasquale thinks the MAS co-pilot could be part of an international porn ring.

With the murder of eight-year-old Nurin unsolved and Sharlinie still missing, he thinks Ahmad Said's case "could be a break through on child porno rings that the Malaysian police have been waiting for.”

Ahmad Said's lawyer, pleaded that he was reckless, mitigating that those files were emailed to him and that he had not shown the files to anyone.

The question is what was he doing with such material in his laptop?

Here Pasquale explains why he thinks so:

"I was told the best way to smuggle first run movie before Hollywood found out about piracy, was for airline stewardess, pilots to bring the master copies of a first run movies into a country.

These movies are in a form of a CDs. So today they can be brought in via laptops. The Malaysian airline pilot implicated must answer to all of the charges, for he cannot plead ignorant. He must be brought back and our police must break him in pieces for him to tell the authority who are his contacts.

We have received many pornographic material via our e-mail and I am sure we have expunged them. If I am that Australian judge I would just consider this case as a normal "man thing" for having been caught with an adult porno, of you know what I mean. BUT to have a child pornographic material!!!!? Nail him! "

I agree with Pasquale, Rocky and Nuraina. Police should rope him in for questioning. This could be just the tip of the ice berg.