Man gets 702 years jail, 234 lashes for raping daughters

 

A father who raped his daughter until she became pregnant was sentenced to 702 years in prison and ordered to receive 234 strokes of rotan by the Sessions Court in Muar.

He was sentenced after pleading guilty to 19 charges of rape and 11 charges of sexual assault against his two daughters.

However, the 53-year-old accused will only have to serve a 42-year prison sentence.

This was after Judge Abu Bakar Manat ordered the sentences for all rape and sexual offences to run concurrently from the date of his arrest on July 10.

He will also only receive the maximum legal limit of 24 whippings.

According to the first to 19th charge, the suspect who worked as a cleaner is accused of raping his two daughters who were then 9 and 10 years old at two houses in Bakri and Jalan Jeram Tepi, Muar here, since 2018 and the last time was on July 9.

The charges were per Section 376 (3) of the Penal Code which provides for a prison sentence of up to 30 years and ten lashes if convicted.

As for the 21st to 30th charge, the accused is accused of sexually assaulting both victims at the same location and time by Section 14 (a) of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017’.

The provision was read together with Section 16(1) of the same act which provides imprisonment of up to 20 years and whipping.

Lifelong trauma

Earlier, deputy public prosecutor Danial Munir asked the court to mete out a heavy sentence because the accused committed a serious offence.

He adds the offence also left lifelong trauma to both of the suspect’s children due to being raped from childhood until one victim was five weeks pregnant.

The accused, who was unrepresented, appealed for a lighter sentence on the grounds that he had repented and regretted his actions.

The court sentenced him to 30 years in prison and ten strokes of the rotan for each count of rape.

For the charge of physical sexual assault, the court sentenced him to 10 years in prison, two whippings for each charge under Section 14, and an additional two years in jail and two lashes for each charge under Section 16.

- Bernama