SEREMBAN: A Bangladeshi man was sentenced to 22 years in prison and given 15 strokes of the cane by the Sessions Court here for incest resulting in the victim, who is his stepdaughter, giving birth.
Judge Datin Surita Budin handed down the sentence on Md Babul Hossain, 44, yesterday after finding the man guilty of raping the teenage girl.
She ordered him to serve the sentence from the date of his arrest which was Feb 20, 2020.
“After hearing the mitigation by the accused and objection by the prosecution, there is no compromise in an incest case. The accused was supposed to protect his stepdaughter who was 13 years old (at the time of the incident),” said the judge, Bernama reported.
Md Babul, who was a cloth merchant, was charged with committing incest by raping his stepdaughter at the Tekir Orang Asli Village, Mentera, Labu Batu 10 here, around 10.30pm on Feb 15, 2020.
The prosecution was conducted by Deputy Public Prosecutor Goh Hsiao Tung while the accused was unrepresented.
