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K. Kamalason had shoved a piece of wood into the victim’s private parts

• 20 years, rotan for raping five-year-old

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KUANTAN: A 47-year-old man was yesterday sentenced to 20 years' jail and 20 strokes of the rotan on a charge of raping a young girl on Christmas Day two years ago.

K. Kamalason, a labourer in a timber company, pleaded guilty. He attacked the girl, then aged 5, at the Bukit Setongkol Chinese cemetery at 6.45 pm on Dec 25, 2006.

The offence under section 376 of the Penal Code carries a maximum jail term of 20 years and up to 24 strokes of the rotan upon conviction.

Sessions Court judge Ahmad Zamzani Mohd Zain ordered the sentence to start from yesterday.

Kamalason, who stood in the dock wearing a white T-shirt and tracksuit, showed no emotion when the sentence was passed.

Eleven people gave evidence at the trial as Kamalason, who was unrepresented, had initially pleaded not guilty.

According to the facts of the case, he had coaxed the girl into taking a ride on his motorcycle to a nearby sundry shop on the pretext of buying her sweets.

Instead, he took her to the Bukit Setongkol Chinese burial ground here, hit her head with a hard object and shoved a piece of wood into her private parts.

He then left, leaving the victim sprawled on the ground.

The traumatised girl suffered excessive bleeding.

Police arrested Kamalason at his house two days later.

Yesterday, Kamalason pleaded for a lighter sentence, saying he had to support his wife, ageing mother and two children, aged two and six.

However, deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Fadhli Mahmud pressed for a deterrent sentence.

"He has ruined a girl's life along with her family's as they will find it difficult to forget the incident."

Ahmad Fadhli said offences against young children were on the rise, citing the case of Nurin Jazlin Jazimin who was sexually abused and killed.

He submitted reports of similar cases in support of his argument that Kamalason should be given the maximum punishment.

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