Policemen escort the suspect (carrying a sling bag) back to the police station.
SIBU: Police arrested a father of eight in the wee hours of yesterday after he was reported to have raped his elderly mother-in-law.
According to police, the 42-year-old jobless man had gone to the 69-year-old victim’s house next door at a village here about 4pm on Friday.
On his arrival, the victim, who was clad only in a ‘sarung’, was sitting in the guest room.
It was said that the suspect pushed her to the floor, and when the woman tried to scream for help he covered her mouth.
The man, who had previous records of drug abuse and break-ins, was believed to have raped the woman under the influence of drugs. The woman narrated the ordeal to her daughter (suspect’s wife) at about 7pm.
Family members then brought her to lodge a police report at about 10.30pm the following day, without the suspect’s knowledge.
Acting on the report, a police D7 unit, led by Inspector Fazirul, stormed the suspect’s wooden house at about 2am yesterday.
When the police arrived, the suspect was sleeping in his own room while his wife and their eight children, aged between one year and 20 years, were sleeping in the guest room.
He was placed under a seven-day remand since yesterday.
The elderly woman lodging a police report at the police station.