A 29-year-old local man was sentenced on Saturday to 30 years and four months’ jail, with 20 strokes of the cane after he pleaded guilty to two charges of raping a 10-year-old girl in 2021.
The man, whose identity is withheld for the victim’s privacy, is a friend of the victim’s brother.
Sometime in 2021, the defendant brought the victim to his house, which is near theirs, according to Deputy Public Prosecutor Rozaimah Abdul Rahman.
-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin