GEORGE TOWN: A Bangladeshi, who pleaded leniency for raping an underage, mentally retarded girl by saying that he intended to marry her, was jailed 15 years and ordered to be given 10 strokes of the rotan.
Shirajul Islam, 34, who also fathered a child with the girl, was found guilty by a Sessions Court here of raping the then 17-year-old from 4pm to 6pm between January and February in 2011 at a flat in Paya Terubong.
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