SARIKEI: A labourer was slapped with the maximum jail sentence of 30 years by the Sessions Court here today for having incestuous relationship with his teenage daughter. The accused, 38, was also sentenced to 18 strokes of caning after he pleaded guilty to 16 counts of committing incest with the victim, who is now 13, since January last year. The accused also pleaded guilty to four counts of committing the same offence and the same location on multiple occasions since July this year. According to the fact of the case, the accused had continuously raped the victim every night from January until December last year. Judge Maris Agan later sentenced the accused to 30 years’ jail for each of the charges.

Source: New Strait Times September 18, 2017 09:11 UTC