KUALA LUMPUR: A man was sentenced to 12 years’ jail and eight strokes of the cane by the Ampang Sessions Court here today for raping his underage stepdaughter.
Ampang Sessions Court judge Unaizah Mohd handed down the sentence after the 34-year-old man pleaded guilty to the charge. She ordered the man to serve the sentence from the date of arrest, which was last Dec 12.
The man, a worker at an iron shop, was charged with raping the girl, aged 12 years and eight months, at a house in Ampang Jaya at 4 pm last Dec 10.
According to the facts of the case, the victim’s mother lodged a report after being informed by the girl that she was raped several times by the stepfather between December 2013 and Dec 10 this year when the woman was not home. — Bernama