Kota Kinabalu: A 31-year-old man, who raped his stepdaughter, was jailed 10 years and ordered to be given two strokes of the cane.
Sessions Court Judge Hurman Hussain handed down the sentence on the man who pleaded guilty to the charge against him on Friday.
The man was also ordered to be placed under police supervision for two years after completing the jail sentence.
He raped the 14 years and three-month-old girl at 1pm on March 28 this year inside a toilet of a house in Manggatal, here.
The offence under Section 376(2)(d) of the Penal Code carries a jail term of between 10 and 30 years, and whipping, on conviction.
The court heard that on the day of the incident, the victim was in the living room of a house when the man suddenly pulled her into the toilet.
While in the toilet, the man pressed her chin with his left hand and made her to look up until she could not speak.
The man then closed the toilet door and the victim tried to push him away and escape but to no avail as the man had pushed her until she fell onto the toilet floor.
After falling onto the toilet floor, the man then took off the victim’s clothes and raped her.
The victim then revealed the incident to her sister who later told their aunty about the incident.
The aunty then brought the victim to lodge a police report pertaining the incident and following the police report, the man was arrested.
