Timely to review age limit for caning rapists, say lawyers in Singapore

President Halimah Yacob has called for a review on the age limit for caning rapists. - The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE, Dec 25 (The Straits Times/ANN): Less than three years after he was released from prison for raping his then underage stepdaughter, a man sexually assaulted his two grand-nieces – who were nine and 11 years old – and admitted to the offences in 2021 after he was found out.

But while he had been sentenced to 19 years’ jail and 24 strokes of the cane for his earlier sexual offences, the diagnosed paedophile could be certain that he would get a sentence without caning for these other offences, as he had passed the age of 50.