SINGAPORE: A 34-year-old man was sentenced to 16 years' jail and 18 strokes of the cane on Wednesday after the High Court found him guilty of raping and molesting his biological mother.
The man had denied the charges, claiming that his mother, who was 53 years old at the time of the offences on Oct 4, 2013, had conspired with his stepfather to make up the allegations to get him out of their one-room flat.
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