Suspected serial rapist and killer Rabidin Satir, 42, charged in court

BENTONG: Suspected serial rapist and killer Rabidin Satir (pic) was charged on Thursday in courts in Bentong and Raub for murder, four counts of rape and a rape-to-death charge as well as one for unnatural sex.

The 42-year-old unemployed Dusun man from Tambunan, Sabah, was charged with murdering a 17-year-old girl at Kampung Ketari here between 11.30am on March 7, 2009 and 1.50pm the next day.

He was also charged at the Bentong magistrate court Thursday with raping-to-death the same victim.

No plea was recorded and magistrate Nurliana Ismail fixed Jan 17 next year for mention.

Later at the Raub Sessions Court, the heavily-guarded Rabidin pleaded guilty to a charge of raping a nine-year-old girl at Taman Sri Marong, Bentong between 2am and 3am on July 9, 2009.

He claimed trial to another three counts of rape and one count of committing unnatural sex.

He allegedly raped a 17-year-old girl at a house at Jalan Kuala Lumpur-Bentong between 1am and 3am on June 21, 2010.

Rabidin was also accused of raping a eight-year-old girl at a riverside behind a house in Ketari, Bentong between 12.30am and 1.30am on April 29, 2011.

Two other charges were for raping and sodomising a 16-year-old girl at a house in Ketari, Bentong between 1am and 2.30am on Oct 12, 2011.

Deputy public prosecutor Atiqah Liyana Shahrir offered bail at RM20,000 for each of the charges.

Rabidin told the court he agreed with the amount offered.

Judge Murtazadi Amran then reduced bail to RM15,000 for four of the charges but refused bail for the one Rabidin had pleaded guilty to.

He then fixed Jan 31 next year for mention.