MELAKA: A swimming instructor was sentenced to 35 years’ jail and 20 lashes on 32 charges of committing sexual crimes over the past three years against his stepdaughter, who is now 16.
The jail sentences will run concurrently from the time of his arrest on April 8.
The man had pleaded guilty separately in two sessions courts to:
- 11 charges of raping his stepdaughter;
- 8 charges of having sex using an object without the victim’s consent;
- 12 charges for committing physical sexual abuse against the girl;
- 1 charge of raping the girl after she was above the age of 16.
All the offences were committed between January 2020 and March 14 this year at their home in a housing estate in Jasin.