PUTRAJAYA, Jan 19 — The Court of Appeal has upheld the 50-year-jail sentence imposed on a man convicted of two counts of incest with his 14-year-old daughter.
However, a three-member bench comprising Justice Datuk Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera, Datuk Azmi Ariffin, and High Court Judge Datuk Noordin Badaruddin, allowed his appeal for the 20 whipping sentence imposed on him by the Session Court to 10 strokes.
In dismissing the 45-year-old’s appeal for a reduction of his jail sentence, Justice Vazeer said the 25-year jail term imposed for each charge was not manifestly excessive, taking into account the relationship between the appellant and the victim, who is his biological child.
He said the victim should be taken care of by the father and not be subjected to rape.
On August 19, 2022, the Sessions Court found the man guilty of two charges of committing incest with the girl at a house in Klang, Selangor, on April 8, 2019, and April 16, 2019, respectively, and sentenced him to 25 years jail and ten strokes of the rotan for each charge.
The accused was ordered to serve the jail sentences consecutively. The man appealed, but the High Court dismissed it on March 6 last year.
Meanwhile, the same panel also affirmed the 15 years jail sentence and one stroke of the cane imposed on a farmer for raping his daughter after ruling 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 was dismissed on February 9 last year.
— Bernama
