KAJANG: A 10-year-old girl’s nightmare ended after police arrested a school bus driver who forced victim to perform oral sex on him on several occasions.
The situation unraveled after another girl, who was also a passenger in the school van, informed the victim’s father on Friday.
Following a police report by the 44-year-old father at the Bangi police station at 8.10pm, a police team was deployed to nab the suspect.
He was picked up at an undisclosed location in Bangi at 9.50pm, on the same day.
Kajang police chief Assistant Commissioner Ahmad Dzaffir Mohd Yussof, said it is believed that the suspect had forced the victim to perform the lewd act several times, which was also seen by school-going children in the van.
He said on the day of the incident, a friend of the complainant informed that victim’s father that she saw the 10-year-old perform the lewd act on the suspect.
"The father then saw the victim getting down the van in tears and questioned her when inside the house," Dzaffir said in a statement today.
He said investigations showed that the suspect had four previous criminal records involving a lewd case and three drug offenses.
"The suspect has now remanded six days until May 31 and the case is being investigated under Section 14 (a) of the Sex Offenses Act Against Children 2017," he said.
If convicted, the suspect can be jailed for a maximum of 20 years and can be whipped.