Man gets 80 years’ jail, 20 strokes for raping nine-year-old niece


KOTA KINABALU: A man who sexually abused his niece for six years was sentenced to 80 years’ jail and given 20 strokes of cane by the Sandakan Sessions Court Wednesday.

Yohanes Kopong, 40, pleaded guilty to six counts of charges against him before judge Egusra Ali to committing the offence since 2009 when his niece was just nine-year-old.

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