KOTA TINGGI: A 50-year-old assistant lorry driver was sentenced by the Sessions Court to a total of 81 years' jail and eight strokes of the rotan for raping and molesting his daughter for a period of four years since she was 11 years old.
He pleaded guilty to five charges - committing carnal intercourse against the order of nature via oral sex, two rape charges and two charges of using criminal force to outrage the modesty of his daughter who was now 17.
The man, who was deaf, committed the offences in his house in Taman Sri Saujana and at a relative's flat in Felda Air Tawar 3 here between 2011 and 2015.
Judge Zahilah Muhammad Yusoff sentenced the man to 28 years' jail and three strokes of the rotan for committing incest on the girl at a house in Taman Sri Saujana here at 2pm on March 2012, and another 25 years' jail and three strokes of the rotan for incest at a flat in Felda Air Tawar 3 here at midnight on Nov 2014.
He received a six-year jail sentence for using criminal force to outrage the modesty of his daughter in Felda Air Tawar 3 at 5pm on Oct 2014; and another seven years' jail for a similar offence at the same location at midnight in February 2015.
He was also jailed 15 years and two strokes of the rotan for committing carnal intercourse against the order of nature via oral sex at a house in Taman Sri Saujana at 4pm on May 2011.
Zahilah ordered the sentences to run consecutively.
The accused was seen adjusting his ear piece several times in the proceedings. When the sentences were meted out, he grabbed hold of his shirt to wipe away his tears.
Earlier at the same court, a 36-year-old contract worker, who was the uncle of the victim, was sentenced to five years' jail for outraging the modesty of the victim at a house in Felda Air Tawar in May 2015.
Deputy public prosecutor Noor Dayana Mohamad urged the court for a heavy punishment on both men as they had betrayed the trust given to them as adult guardians of the victim, and had ruined her future.
"The father is supposed to be the protector of his daughter, yet he betrayed this trust. This also applies to the uncle," she said.
The two men were represented by lawyer Salwa Sulaiman who appealed for a low sentence especially on the father who was disabled and already an elderly man.
The girl, who is second of six siblings, was said to have been raped at her own house and at a relative's house.
The facts stated that she told her mother about it which led to a big fight between the mother and father. The couple were recently divorced.
However, it was only when the girl confided about her rape to her aunt did her nightmare end.
The aunt lodged a police report on Sept 2 and the girl underwent a medical examination at the Sultan Ismail Hospital on the same day.
The examination revealed that the girl had an old tear in her hymen.
Police arrested her father and uncle the following day.