Teacher acquitted of rape


Found innocent: Mohd Faddil hugging his mother outside the Seremban Sessions Court after his acquittal.

SEREMBAN: A Mathematics teacher was acquitted by the Sessions Court here of ­raping a 12-year-old girl after a doctor testified that he was impotent at the time of the alleged crime.

In acquitting Mohd Faddil Abdul Rahman, 39, judge Anita Harun said the decision was based on the testimony by an andro­logist that the accused was suffering from the medical condition.

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