“Teacher, Wait I Will Rape You, Soon.”

The Year Three pupil of a school in Baling who allegedly threatened to rape his teacher did not fully understand the meaning of the word, the Kedah Education Department found out.

Department director Datuk Mansor Lat said officials from the department had interviewed the boy at his school yesterday. He said that based on the investigation, the boy was not a troubled child and had good academic performance.

“The teacher had taught his class when he was in Year Two and he was very fond of her. From his explanation, we found that the boy did not fully understand the meaning of the word which he had texted to the teacher,” Mansor said when contacted yesterday. He said the boy would be given counselling at his school.

MALACCA: A teacher in Kedah allegedly received a rape threat – from a Year Three pupil!

The 39-year-old victim was at her home in Bandar Putri Jaya, Sungai Petani, when she received the threat at around 10.30pm on Feb 13.

The boy from SK Lanai initially called her on her mobile and then followed up with a text message which read: “Teacher, wait I will rape you, soon.”

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The pupil had allegedly acted in such a menacing manner in defence of a friend who was not appointed the class monitor.

Her colleague, who contacted The Star office soon after the incident, said the threat from the young boy sent shock waves throughout the school in Kupang, about 6km from Baling town. “She is traumatised that her pupil had boldly made the threat,” said the colleague, a 29-year-old teacher from Alor Gajah, who now teaches at the Kedah school.

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The teacher later lodged a police report at the Kuala Muda police headquarters on 14 February.

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Terrified, she asked her husband to check out who made the phone call, which was in a boyish tone. Using a public phone, the husband called back the number and a man, believed to be in his 30s, answered. The man admitted that his nephew had used his cell phone and that he would punish the boy and report the matter to his parents.

When contacted, a man claiming to be a senior assistant at the primary school, said they have summoned the boys’ parents to the school today (Monday). “We want to find out what prompted the pupil to make the threat against his teacher and whether the child needs psychiatric help,” he said, adding the boy was absent from school yesterday.

Meanwhile, anti-crime activist Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye wants the Kedah education department to make a full probe into the matter. “I am dumbfounded. How could a boy make such a grave threat? We need to nip the problem in the bud,” said Lee, the Malaysia Crime Pre­vention Foun­dation vice-chairman.

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He said the case should act as an eye-opener that remedial measures are urgently needed to curb the rising cases of delinquency among schoolchildren.