LAWAS: A teacher has been detained to assist the police in their investigation into allegations of sexual assault and sodomy involving five boys at a primary school here in 2016. Lawas district police chief DSP Abang Zainal Abidin Abang Ahmad said the suspect, a 31-year-old man, was detained at the Karamunsing police station in Kota Kinabalu at 7.30pm on Saturday. DSP Abang Zainal said the police report was lodged on Saturday after one of the victims, currently in secondary school, informed his teacher of what the suspect had done to him and four other boys. The suspect is now being detained at the Lawas district police headquarters to assist in the investigation. He added that the victim was alleged to have been molested and sodomised by the suspect in 2016.

Source: thestar May 20, 2019 00:00 UTC