Teacher gets 12 years' jail, rotan for sexually assaulting teen student


KOTA KINABALU: A tahfiz teacher was sentenced to 12 years’ jail with two strokes of the rotan for sexually assaulting a teenager.

Kota Kinabalu Sessions Court judge Elsie Primus passed the sentence after finding the teacher guilty of the offence committed at around noon on Feb 21, 2024, in a house in Penampang.

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