Filipino’s sentence for child molesting enhanced
Instead, the Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak, Tan Sri Richard Malanjum, enhanced the sentence imposed by the Magistrate’s Court on Nazri Abbas to six years’ jail and six strokes of the cane.
Malanjum held that the previous sentence imposed by the subordinate court should be enhanced on the ground that such offences are nowadays rampant and that consequent to his act, the appellant’s mother had lost her job as a maid to the child.
He also pointed out that he has dealt with five similar appeals since last week.
The Magistrate’s Court had on November 17, last year, imposed the custodial and whipping sentences on Nazri after he pleaded guilty to molesting a six-year-old girl at a house in Putatan between 1pm and 1.15pm on October 8, 2011.
The offence under Section 354 of the Penal Code provides for a jail term of up to 10 years, or a fine, or whipping, or any two of such punishments, upon conviction.
In his appeal against sentence, the unrepresented Nazri told the court that he was not aware of what he was doing as he was drunk at that time.
He claimed to have only touched the victim and had no intention to commit anything, prompting deputy public prosecutor Luke Ressa Balang to stand up and informed the court that the appellant had rubbed his private parts against the child’s vagina.
When the court asked the appellant to provide justifications on why the sentence should not be enhanced, the appellant replied, “My mother is already old and I want to take care of her.”
Nazri said that his mother lost her job as a maid to the child after the incident and he regretted with what he had done and wanted to change his life.
He also informed the court that he could not stand any heavy punishment.
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Hopefully this sentence will serve as a lesson for those child molesters out there. Currently there is also a care whereby a serial molester has sexually abused female students, similar or worst sentence should be given to him.
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