IN TEARS: Riduan Masmud hugging his wife and daughter outside the Sessions Court in Kota Kinabalu after being sentenced to 12 years’ jail and two strokes of the rotan for raping an underage girl a year ago. — NORMIMIE DIUN/The Star
KOTA KINABALU: A restaurant manager who tried to evade the law by marrying a 12-year-old girl he had sex with has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for rape.
Sessions Court judge Ummu Kalthom Abdul Samad also ordered Riduan Masmud, 41, to be given two lashes of the rotan.
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