Father pleads guilty to raping two daughters for 11 years

New Straits Times

26-06-2025

MUAR: The suffering of two sisters who were victims of molest, rape, and sodomy by their biological father for the past 11 years ended when the man was sentenced to 124 years in prison and 92 strokes of the cane by the Sessions Court here today.
A 44-year-old father of two siblings was sentenced after pleading guilty to all 14 charges presented to him by the interpreter in front of Judge Sayani Mohd Nor.
The palm oil worker was sentenced to 21 years in prison and six strokes of the cane for the first to third charges of committing physical sexual abuse against a daughter who is now 16 years old.
The act was committed against the victim since the age of five at his home in Batu Pahat during the day and night between the years 2014 and 2022.
For this charge, he was prosecuted under Section 14 (a) and (d), the Sexual Offences Against Children Act (Soaca) 2017.
For the fourth to fourteenth charges, he was accused of raping, sodomising, and committing physical sexual assault against his eldest child, who is now 17 years old, in various locations including a hut in an oil palm plantation and a store between the years 2014 and May 2025.
The charges were brought under Section 376(3) of the Penal Code, Section 14(d), and Section 377C of the same code, amounting to a total sentence of 103 years in prison and 86 strokes of the rotan.
However, the court ordered that the sentences under Section 376(3) and Sections 14(a) and 14(d) run concurrently, while the additional sentence under Section 16 would begin after the first term is served.
As a result, the accused will serve a total of 22 years in prison and receive 24 strokes, which is the maximum allowed under Section 288 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Based on the facts of the case, a police report was made after the victim's mother, who is also the defendant's wife, was called by the school due to the declining performance of both of her children.
Both defendants then told their teacher and mother that they had been raped, sodomised, and molested by their father since they were five and six years old.
Preliminary police investigations found that the incident occurred while both victims were at home and in the palm oil plantation hut, with the accused committing the act without the victims' consent.
In fact, one of the victims almost fainted and had difficulty breathing after being raped by the accused, despite pleading multiple times, but the man ignored them.
Even more cruel, the victim also experienced bleeding and was ordered not to tell anyone, including her mother, if she didn't want anything to happen to her.
The prosecution was handled by deputy public prosecutor, Othman Affan Ismail, while the accused was not represented by a lawyer.
The court also ordered the accused to undergo police supervision for two years upon completion of the sentence in accordance with Section 27 of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017.