PUTRAJAYA: A man who committed incest with his 14-year-old daughter failed to get his 50-year jail term reduced by the Court of Appeal.
A three-member bench comprising Court of Appeal judges Justices Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera and Azmi Ariffin, and High Court judge Justice Noordin Badaruddin, however, allowed the 45-year-old man’s appeal to reduce his 20-stroke whipping sentence imposed by the Sessions Court to 10 strokes.
In dismissing the man’s appeal for a reduction of his jail sentence, Justice Vazeer said the 25-year jail term imposed on the man on two charges was not manifestly excessive, taking into account the relationship between him and the victim, his biological child.
He said the victim should have been taken care of by the father and not subjected to rape.
On Aug 19, 2022, the Sessions Court found the man guilty of two charges of committing incest with the girl at a house in Klang, Selangor.
He was convicted of raping his daughter on April 8, 2019 and April 16, 2019.
He was sentenced to 25 years in jail and 10 strokes of the rotan for each charge. He was also ordered to serve the jail sentences consecutively.
The man appealed, but it was dismissed by the High Court on March 6 last year, Bernama reported.
Meanwhile, the same three-judge panel also affirmed the 15-year jail sentence and one stroke of the rotan imposed on a farmer in Kelantan for raping his daughter, who was born out of wedlock, after ruling that the jail sentence was not manifestly excessive.
Justice Vazeer, in delivering the court’s decision, said the victim was still the man’s biological daughter, although she was born out of wedlock.On April 14, 2022, the 51-year-old man was sentenced to 15 years in jail and one stroke of the cane by the Sessions Court after he pleaded guilty to raping the girl in a room of a house in Pasir Puteh, Kelantan, on March 24, 2022.
Unhappy with the jail sentence, he appealed to the High Court, but it was dismissed on Feb 9 last year.
