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When sons are a menace to their mothers
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Sat, Aug 23, 2008
New Straits Times
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SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA: Two men are in trouble for threatening their mothers.
A 43-year-old man here told his mother he would bury her alive when she advised him to stop his habitual drinking.
Fearing S. Rajendra would carry out his threat, his mother, Seethaei Muthusamy, 71, sought help from police, who arrested him last month.
Rajendra told his mother: "I will use a hoe to dig a hole, bury you and then set up a tent outside the house and let people know that you are dead".
Yesterday, he pleaded guilty at the magistrate's court to threatening his mother in their house at Jalan 24/1, Block 27, Section 24, here at 5pm on July 21.
Magistrate Suriyanilakma Abd Kadir sentenced him to a month's jail from the date of his arrest, allowing Rajendra to walk free.
According to the facts of the case, Rajendra used harsh language on his mother every time he came home drunk.
On the day of the incident, Seethaei believed he might kill her and locked herself in a room.
She then packed her bags and stayed in a relative's house until she was taken to the police station to lodge a report against her son.
When questioned by police, Rajendra admitted to drinking everyday but claimed not to remember the words he used on his mother. He was arrested the day after the incident.
In another case in Dungun, a man grabbed a parang and chased his 74-year-old mother after she refused to give him money to buy drugs.
The woman, of Kampung Limbong, Paka, near here, was at home when her son demanded RM300.
The woman denied her son's request and told him to find a job to support himself.
This angered the addict, who grabbed a parang in the kitchen and threatened his mother with it.
Fearing for her life, the woman ran around the house and shouted for help.
Hearing her cries, the woman's other children, who are staying nearby, came to her aid and the man fled.
District police chief Superintendent Dahlan Mohd Noor said police were looking for the addict who was believed to have gone into hiding.
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