Azalina: New offences of livestreaming sex, sexual blackmailing of children; jail penalties proposed

KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 — The Malaysian government plans to make it a crime to livestream sex, and also wants to make it a crime to threaten and extort a child by using sexual photos, minister Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said said today.

She said livestreaming sex could happen when a child is at home and has access to a laptop or handphone, and that sexual extortion could also happen online when children give out sexual photos of themselves. “So in school sometimes, boyfriends, girlfriends, when they break up, they start throwing pictures and say, ‘Well, now you are not with me, I will tell the world’. It’s an offence, it will put you in prison, we don’t care how old you are.

In the proposed amendments to the SOAC to be tabled next Monday, Azalina said the proposed new offence of livestreaming sex would cover actions such as participating, promoting, organising or receiving money. She mentioned 20 years’ jail or a RM50,000 fine as the penalties for such an offence.

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