By Dorcas Ting
KUCHING, March 23: The Sessions Court here sentenced a 19-year-old youth to a total of 14 years’ imprisonment and two strokes of the cane for raping and sexually assaulting his 12-year-old cousin.
Sessions Court Judge Mohd Taufik Mohd @ Mohd Yusoff ordered the imprisonment term to run concurrently, with effect from the date of arrest, which is July 12, 2022.
For both charges, he was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting his 12-year-old cousin by touching the victim’s private parts at a house in Padawan on July 12, 2022.
He was charged under Section 376(2)(d) of the Penal Code for the first charge and Section 14(a) of the Sexual Offences against Children Act 2017 for the second.
According to the brief facts of the case, the accused forced the victim to drink langkau, a local alcholic drink, at about 12.20am on the day of the incident. The victim fell drunk and slept at the accused’s house.
On the second day, the victim told her friend that the accused took off her clothes and the accused who was also naked at that time had put his body on the victim while she was drunk and asleep.
The victim was brought to the hospital for a check by the obstetrician and gynecologist, who determined that she had been sexually assaulted.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Danial Mohamad Ali prosecuted while the accused was unrepresented by counsel. — DayakDaily
