The teenager, whose name is being withheld for his safety, said the same group of schoolboys regularly extorted others according to his friends. Everyone in school “knows them as gangsters”, he said.

His father filed a police report four days after noticing bruises on the boy’s arms, and has urged the police to speed up the investigation.

The investigating officer at Mutiara Damansara station, who declined to be named, told FMT that the investigation paper will be referred to the Selangor deputy public prosecutor next week.

FMT is withholding the name of the school pending its response.

Confronted at stairs

The schoolboy related to FMT one of the incidents that took place at recess when he was walking up the stairs to his classroom.

He said he was stopped by a Form 5 student, who grabbed him by his shirt and demanded money, threatening to punch him in the face.

“I gave him RM5, but he still punched me in my right arm,” the boy said. Two boys were waiting upstairs, and three others downstairs, to make sure he handed over his pocket money, he said.

The teenager said he was confronted the next day during recess by the same boy near the stairs.

‘I’ll smash your face’

“He accused me of telling someone about what happened. Then he punched me on my left arm and took another RM8. He warned me, saying: ‘If you tell your father, I will smash your face.’

He claimed that the same group of boys regularly extorted others, according to his friends, and they are seen smoking in the toilet almost every day.

The boy said his 43-year-old father noticed bruises on both his arms and demanded to know what happened, after which he revealed that he had been assaulted and extorted.

The father, a clerk from Selayang, said he lodged a police report at the Mutiara Damansara police station on Feb 22, and later took his son to hospital for a check-up.

Parents’ meeting

“The school called for a meeting with the parents of the five boys on Feb 26. The boys admitted that they had beaten my son,” the father said.

He added that the parents pleaded with him to withdraw the police report.

“I was about to withdraw it until one of the boys suddenly charged at my son right in front of the police. That was when I decided not to withdraw the report,” he said.

The man claimed the students were only suspended for two weeks, and later returned to school.

The teenager said he remains traumatised and fearful, saying he does not go to the toilet in school alone any more, and that he is afraid to go to school.

He said he hopes to transfer to a vocational or technical school next year. “Until then, I just hope nothing happens to me,” he said.