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   (Reuters) - Malaysian police have detained 13 men and are   
   looking for other suspects following allegations that a 15-year-   
   old girl was raped by 38 men in an abandoned hut, media said on   
   Friday.   
      
   Astro Awani television and The Star daily reported that the   
   assault took place in the northern state of Kelantan on May 20   
   when the girl met a girlfriend and was lured to an empty hut   
   reported to be a local drug haunt.   
      
   The men took turns to rape her for hours. Police were also   
   investigating whether her 17-year-old friend was also raped.   
      
   The alleged attack, one of several brutal cases this week   
   underscoring the violence to which women are being subjected   
   across Asia, sparked outrage among women's groups. Politicians   
   from a Muslim party running the region said their proposal to   
   introduce Islamic hudud law, with harsh penalties, would deter   
   offenders.   
      
   State and federal police officers either declined comment or   
   could not be immediately reached.   
      
   Media accounts, quoting information from district police chief   
   Azham Otham, said 38 men were involved.   
      
   Several of those detained had tested positive for amphetamine,   
   the reports said. The New Straits Times said a man and his two   
   teenage sons were among those detained.   
      
   Police said action could have been taken had villagers reported   
   the addicts’ presence.   
      
   "It is very disturbing to me that no one in the village was even   
   suspicious when the closest neighbor was a mere 20 meters away,"   
   police chief Azham told The Star.   
      
   Almost 3,000 rapes were reported to the police in 2012, of which   
   52 percent involved girls aged 16 and below, according to police   
   statistics.   
      
   Convicted rapists face up to 30 years in prison and whipping,   
   but many on Internet sites wanted stricter punishment.   
      
   "We are seeing a prevalence in rape cases because boys are   
   raised in an environment where they think it is okay to use   
   violence," Suri Kempe of Sisters in Islam told Reuters.   
      
   Awareness of rape in Asia was heightened by the fatal gang rape   
   of a physiotherapy student on an Indian bus in 2012.   
      
   Several grisly attacks on women took place this week.   
      
   In the Pakistan city of Lahore, a pregnant woman was bludgeoned   
   to death by her family in front of a top court for marrying   
   against the wishes of her parents.   
      
   And in India's Uttar Pradesh state, two teenage cousins from a   
   low caste were gang-raped and then hanged from a tree.   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/30/us-malaysia-crime-   
   idUSKBN0EA15K20140530   
      
       
      
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