2007 06: Jailed but shows no remorse

NST online. Local News. 8/06/07.

PETALING JAYA: Two 12-year-old boys will have to deal with the trauma for the rest of their lives.

But the man who pleaded guilty to sodomising them seemed more interested in arranging to have his belongings collected.

All 28-year-old Mohd Fauzi Imbap Abdullah had to say in the Sessions Court yesterday in his own defence was: "I have come here from Sarawak to work so I can take care of my sickly and aged parents."

Fauzi was charged with sodomising the two boys at a Perkim children’s shelter in Damansara Utama.

One was sodomised three times — twice in April and once in May. The other was sodomised in March.

After forcing himself on the boys, he would lock them in their rooms.

The incidents were reported to police after one of the boys told his sister what had happened. Fauzi was arrested on May 28.

Fauzi showed no remorse in his mitigation plea.

After comments about his parents, he seemed more interested in arranging for his belongings, and some of a cousin’s, to be retrieved from his room.

"Some of my cousin’s things are in my room. If they (Perkim officers) can contact him, he can remove my things."

Judge Nurmala Salim sentenced him to 12 years’ jail and four strokes of the rotan for each of the first three charges, and 10 years and two strokes for the fourth. The charges are to run concurrently. In passing sentence, she said: "What you did was disgusting."