MIRI: The Sessions Court here yesterday sentenced an Indonesian man to 10 years’ imprisonment and ordered him to be whipped four times for raping a 12-year-old girl.
The accused pleaded guilty before Judge Marutin Pagan.
According to the facts of the case, the accused, Yakob Nboik, 42, was discovered by the victim’s father sitting next to his daughter (the victim) in her bedroom of a worker’s quarters of an estate in Batu Niah around 9.30am on Oct 13 this year.
The complainant (the girl’s father) and his wife had left the quarters early that morning at 6.30am to go to work, leaving their only daughter inside the quarters.
Somehow, the complainant had felt troubled and that prompted him to go back to the quarters to check on his daughter.
Fearing that the suspect might have done something to his daughter, the complainant then brought the man to Batu Niah Police Station.
The offence is framed under Section 376 of the Penal Code.