Kids given flogging demo

Prison guards are showing Malaysian schoolchildren how they flog convicts, using dummies for the demonstrations but showing photos of wounds caused by the real thing, in a bid to steer the youngsters away from crime.

At a school in the northern city of Taiping, about 600 children watched as prison guard Jigeira Singh beat a life-sized stuffed effigy that had been strapped to a wooden frame. He told them he had been trained to strike with his cane at 100 mph.