Teenage boy sent to rehab school for rape

KUCHING: The Magistrate’s Court has ordered a teenage boy be sent to the Henry Gurney School for raping an 11-year-old girl.

Magistrate Zubaidah Sharkawi ordered that the juvenile spend three years at the rehab school after hearing the character report of the 15-year-old accused from the Social Welfare Department (JKM).

The boy had pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 376 (1) of the Penal Code which carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years and caning, upon conviction.

The accused committed the offence in the stairwell area of ​​a shopping centre here, around 1.30pm on December 17, 2023.

Based on the facts of the case, on December 20, 2023, around 9pm, the victim informed her mother that she had had sex with a man.

Later, the victim’s mother filed a police report for further action leading to the arrest of the accused on 21 December 2023.

The results of the investigation found that the accused had sex with the 11-year-old girl on the day of the incident, in addition to the medical report confirming that there was an old tear detected in the victim’s genitals.