2007 06: Welder jailed 15 years for raping stepdaughter

The Star online. News. Courts. Wednesday June 6, 2007

IPOH: A welder was sentenced to 15 years’ jail for raping his stepdaughter, who later gave birth to a boy.

Sessions Court judge Hashim Hamzah also ordered the 29-year-old to be whipped three times after he admitted raping the girl at their house in Taman Sri Dermawan here about 10.30am in December 2005.

The girl was 18 then.

In pressing for a deterrent sentence, DPP Ahmad Ishrakh Saad said the victim would be traumatised for the rest of her life.

“Her future is destroyed. The victim was in Form Six at the time of the incident and was about to sit for her STPM when she went into labour.

“What is more serious is that the innocent life that was brought into this world without a father will face a bleak future,” he said.

The welder, who had initially claimed trial to the offence, will serve his sentence from the date of his arrest on July 27 last year.