10 years’ jail, 5 strokes of the rotan for raping minor

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KUCHING: A married man who faced five charges of raping an underage girl, was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment and five strokes of the rotan for three of the charges at the court yesterday.

On March 26, he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and five whippings after he pleaded guilty to the other two charges.

Khairuddin Mohd Ali from Simunjan, 32, was accused of raping his girlfriend from Feb 25 to March 1 this year. On March 26, he pleaded guilty to raping the teenager on Feb 28 and March 1.

The girl’s father had lodged a police report that his daughter went missing after going to a friend’s house to study on Feb 25. He was later informed that his young daughter was seen in Matang on March 3, where he found his daughter at a construction site.

Police arrested the accused the next day.

The girl was sent to hospital for a check-up and her private part was found hurt.

The accused was her boyfriend, whom she knew for about a year. It was said that they first had sexual intercourse between 7pm and 12am at the accused’s house on Feb 25.

Khairuddin was convicted under Section 376(1) of the Penal Code.

As all the sentences are to run concurrently, his total punishment is 10 years’ jail and 10 whippings.