Thursday May 15, 2008
Shocked over hubby molesting own daughter
KUALA LUMPUR: A clerk was shocked to learn that her husband had been molesting their seven-year-old daughter during a routine weekend visit to her mother's place.
The child had apparently told her grandmother about the ordeal of her being “teased'' by her 44-year-old father in November last year.
The 31-year-old woman lodged a police report against her bus conductor husband and yesterday the man was jailed 24 months by a magistrate's court here for committing molestation.
The man admitted to molesting the girl in a condominium in Jalan Genting Klang in Setapak between 9am and 9.30am between Nov 1 and Nov 30, 2007.
The court was told that the girl confided in her grandmother about her father's teases and that the teasing involved him pressing his body against her and putting his private parts against hers.
The clerk had on Dec 8 took her daughter to a playground near her house and asked her if the incident had occurred.
The victim admitted that her father had twice tried to put his private parts into hers while her mother was at work.
Pleading for leniency before magistrate Nazran Mohd Sham, the accused said he had taken good care of his child including bathing her while at home.
The accused asked the court to consider his future saying that he and his mother were also sick.
He claimed that there were people looking for him for his debts.
Assistant public prosecutor Norhanum Hassan pressed for a deterrent sentence, saying that the accused has two previous convictions for possession of stolen property and theft.
“The incident had also traumatised the child,” she said, adding that the court had to consider the public interest, seriousness of the actions and that the sexual offences against children were rampant.
Nazran ordered the man to serve his jail term from his date of arrest on Dec 11 last year.
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