Sentenced: Abdul Mutalib being led away from the court in Penang.
GEORGE TOWN: A primary school teacher was sentenced to 24 years in jail after he admitted to sexually abusing three pupils during class.
Abdul Mutalib Hussain, a religious studies teacher, was also ordered to be given six strokes of the rotan after he changed his plea to guilty.
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