OFF TO PRISON: The handcuffed youth being escorted in the court lobby after delivery of judgment.
KUCHING: The parents of a youth broke down and cried in a Sessions Court here yesterday when their son was sentenced to four years’ jail and five strokes of the rotan for statutory rape of his underage girlfriend.
The 18-year-old pleaded guilty but appeared calm.
He shed tears occasionally after judgment was delivered by Judge Nixon Kennedy Kumbong who convicted him under Section 376 (1) of the Penal Code.
The section provides for a maximum jail term of 20 years and whipping.
The accused admitted to having sexual intercourse with the 14-year-old girl at an unnumbered house in a village at Kota Samarahan at midnight of Nov 26 last year.
The brief facts of the case stated that the accused brought the victim to a hut near a village in Kota Samarahan and forced her to have sexual intercourse.
It was learnt that they were boyfriend and girlfriend and it was not their first time having sex.
The girl, a minor at 14, got pregnant and gave birth to a baby girl some time in August this year. The DNA test proved that the accused is the father of the baby.
DPP Nur Nisla Abd Latif prosecuted while the accused was not represented.