Man jailed 36 years jail, to be caned 22 times for sexually assaulting stepdaughters


KOTA KINABALU: A man who molested and sexually assaulted his stepdaughters multiple times since they were aged six and nine has been sentenced to 36 years in prison by the Keningau Sessions Court on Thursday (Jan 16).

The 40-year-old contractor pleaded guilty to committing the offence on the victims, now 17 and 19, at their house in the interior district of Keningau before Sessions Court Judge Ahmad Fairuz Mohd Puz, who also sentenced him to a total of 22 strokes of the cane.

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