Home
Malaysian court cuts incest sentence
Caribbean News.Net Tuesday 18th November, 2008
A Malaysian court has slashed a 75-year sentence given to a man convicted of raping his stepdaughter.
The Court of Appeal said the 75 year sentence was illogical as he would die in jail.
Judge Suriyadi Halim Omar, decided the judge at the original trial had acted through emotion.
He said judges should not 'react vengefully'' to shocking crimes.
In the original trial, a 48-year-old rubber tapper was accused of raping his stepdaughter when she was aged between 13 and 15 years old.
He only stopped when she gave birth to his baby boy.
The man was sentenced to 75 years in jail and 50 strokes of the rotan; a long bamboo cane.
At the appeal, Judge Suriyadi accused the man of behaving like an animal but said he must be sentenced within the law.
He said: 'You are lucky. The law is not as evil as you are.''
He ordered him to spend 30 years in jail and be dealt 24 strokes of the rotan.
Email this story to a friend
Comments on this story
th 11-18-08, 06:03 AM |
Malaysian court cuts incest sentence
the sentences is right n this type of people shud be punished like this. serves him rite for all the pain the daughter wud have gone thru.
|
Hindu 11-18-08, 07:52 AM |
Punishment & Sex education
On one side, criminals should be punished in accordance with the law. On the other side proper sex education is very very important to growing up children. They must understand a pervert’s approach against them and the security and protection in which they are safe immediately if exposed. NGO’s and welfare & family ministry must go all out to educate our innocent children and parents about the importance of sex education to their children and defensive moves that includes a 24 hrs helpline for young children who is going through such trauma, which may provide them safety and security with immediate effect.
|
World Savior 11-18-08, 09:31 AM |
Hang Him
He is not called a man but creature. Just hang him. If not, there are no justice.
|
Anonymous 11-18-08, 09:44 AM |
Rape is Rape. The judge was right in one thing. Acting out of revenge is wrong. Giveing anybody strokes tboot is also wrong. Then again i’m not Malay. When in Rome i suppose.
|
Ridulous 11-18-08, 12:53 PM |
Funny. The judge cut the sentencing based on the age. There are people out there were sentenced to 150 years. Do you think the criminal will live that long?
|
mon 11-18-08, 03:39 PM |
restriction& bared
such a man shoud be bared or completly restricted from poeple, which the sentence should have sarved as that purpose, he is only going to stay where he will be fade throughout his lifetime while keeping him away from children to avoid reoccurance
|
WOOD 11-18-08, 04:15 PM |
thanks to the second judge for aplying justice with mercy.
yes that man is realy evil and deserve to well punished, and he should be treated like and animal for behaving like such.
But honestly i think some judges also needed to understanding of some things.
Laws and punishments are meant to helppeople realize their mistakes and keep away from them and not a revange for to their errors in life.
That being so why should we be talking about 75years or even 50years, for Gods sake when this person realize his mistakes where will he live to help the youths and other who might go his way to change?
So i think they should be reasonable when sentencing people to jail so that the person might be reformed and and still live to tell the story not indirectly ending his life in jail.
Judges are like perents and should give all purnishment with mercy and love.
|
vimal 11-18-08, 04:55 PM |
he gonna get free food for rest of his life.. :)
|
Smurf 11-18-08, 05:09 PM |
Rehab
I agree with WOOD, although reality is a very different thing. There is not much point locking someone up their whole life, all they become is a burden on society, there is no rehabilitation involved. In fact all across the world most jails act as storage facilities as opposed to rehab centres, if we could actually come up with a way to help people when they went into jail we might have a more forgiving and trusting society. Of course most people don’t want to spend their time helping and counselling perverts and deviants. But it these children who are abused when they are young who grow up and push their pain onto someone else half the time. Stop the cycle.. its a societal thing, we must change our attitudes towards women’s rights in our country. Too many eastern states literally get away with murder.
|
Yourstruly 11-18-08, 09:24 PM |
This is sad...
Nowadays, the world,including our own home is no longer a safe place, is a jungle. Rape is not just a women’s issue. Rape is everyone’s issue. Men too can get raped. Honestly, rapist are the weakest people in the world bcoz they did not have the ability to control their sexual desire.
|
Nickhead 11-18-08, 10:13 PM |
Education
This is not the first incident, it happened many in Malaysia. All did received deter punishment but it doesn’t stop or decreased. So the Government ,Religious group should set these as top priority and Education also should come in to do a reform and change those with human body but animals brain cells doing disgusting act.
|
Mat Ismail 11-18-08, 10:36 PM |
Malay dilemma
This seems to be happening more with the Malays
|
shc 11-18-08, 11:20 PM |
10% off for using Expressways from 12 am to 7am.
Just to save the 10% cost of using expressways, don’t the government know that they might be excepting more fatal accidents on their hand. And how much do one fatal accident cost to the government? These are the time when most of us humans sleep and rest. Do anyone want to risk their life and the lives of their families just to save a few RM? I suggest that the government should give 10% discount to all motorists for whatever time they travel on the expressways.
Very sorry my subject here have no relation with the above subject.
|
A-al, 19/11/08 11-18-08, 11:32 PM |
They will never stop
I agreed with Mat Ismail. Reported cases seems to be happening with the Malays. I think its about time to change the charges of rape cases. Need to look into this urgently. One is never enough to the rapist..they don’t have to pay...
|
worldwithoutend 11-19-08, 12:31 AM |
Cut it off
Rapist should be help bu having their thing cut off
|
JACKY 11-19-08, 06:36 AM |
GOOD RIDDANCE
30 years and 24 strokes, good enough. He will suffer for the rest of his miserable LIFE......
|
JACKY 11-19-08, 06:38 AM |
GOOD RIDDANCE
30 years and 24 strokes, good enough. Let him suffer for the rest of his MISERABLE life.....
|
Nickhead 11-19-08, 05:16 AM |
Disgusting Act
FATWA - Should setup a good programs to educate the youth and school to put more efforts on right attitude towards Sex Education. I would suggest immediately put a stop on allow Internet Cafe in Resident Area. I personlly see groups of young Muslim age below 10 surfing pron web site inside the cafe. This is sadden and sickening incident.
|
Nickhead 11-19-08, 05:23 AM |
EDUCATION
Deter punsihment doesn’t help. We should look into the source of the problem. Internet Cafe is one of the reason. Stop allowing Internet Cafe operate in the Resident Area. They should be in the Shopping Complex and Tourist Area. Don’t see any reason why it allow Resident Area to operate Internet. As we can agreed, all of the Internet Cafe operate at Resident Area is either Gaming otherwise you can see goup of youngster gather in one corner surfing Pron Web Site.
|
Anonymous 11-18-08, 02:54 PM |
The Judge should have allowed the young girl to determine the punishment....
|
Lazarus 12-07-08, 03:51 PM |
Malaysian court cuts incest sentence
With the new 30 year sentence he will be 78 when he is released if he survives that longin jail. He must still undergo 24 strokes of the rotan, and this will be an extremely painful and permanent reminder of what he has done. So with the 24 strokes and a 30 year sentence, I think that the judge has made a good decision.
|
Have your say on this story
|
 |
 |
- Amy Winehouse shells out £32k to fly friends to Caribbean
London, January 6 : Amy Winehouse reportedly shelled out 32,000 pounds to fly friends to soak up the sun with her in the Caribbean. [read story]
- Is Amy Winehouse's new man a posh former rugby player?
London, January 6 : Amy Winehouse, who has been soaking up the Caribbean sun, has reportedly found herself a new beau - a posh former rugby player. [read story]
- Autopsy shows John Travolta's son Jett died of 'seizure'
Washington, Jan 6 : The autopsy for American actor John Travolta's son Jett, completed in the Bahamas on January 5, has shown that the 16-year-old's death was due to a seizure. [read story]
- Robinson Crusoe's saviour's 300-year-old journal discovered
London, Jan 6 : A 300-year-old journal of a British explorer who defeated pirates of the Caribbean and rescued real-life Robinson Crusoe has been unearthed and is expected to fetch 3,000 pounds at an auction. [read story]
- Coroners perform autopsy on John Travolta's son
New York, Jan 6 (DPA) Coroners in the Bahamas have performed an autopsy on John Travolta's 16-year-old son Jett, who died Friday after suffering a seizure while on a holiday. [read story]
|
|
 |
 |
|
|