Prison officer gets 10 years’ jail, six strokes for sexually harassing teen

KOTA KINABALU: A Prisons Department officer was sentenced to 10 years’ jail and given six strokes of the rotan after he was found guilty on two counts of sexually harassing his colleague’s teenage daughter in January last year.

Tawau Sessions court judge Awang Kerisnada Awang Mahmud had initially handed the accused Marino Majabin a 10-year prison sentence and three strokes of the cane for each offence.