Salesman raped the girl, 13, at a luxury apartment in Cheras but gets his 12-year jail original sentence reduced on appeal.
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KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court today upheld a conviction against a salesman who was found guilty of raping an underage teenage girl whom he had befriended through Facebook.
Judge Azman Abdullah, however, reduced the jail term from 12 years to eight years against Khoo Kean Giap, 23, handed down by the Sessions Court on Sept 7 last year. However, the imposition of whipping was upheld.
Azman ordered Khoo to serve the sentence from today, rejecting an application by counsel R Devadasan to suspend execution of the sentence pending appeal.
The Sessions Court had sentenced the salesman to 12 years’ jail and imposed two strokes of the rotan after finding him guilty of raping the 13-year-old girl.
Khoo, who knew the victim through Facebook, was charged with raping the teenager in the bedroom of a luxury apartment in Cheras at 8pm in October 2012.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Aznika Mohd Anas conducted the prosecution.
– BERNAMA
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court today upheld a conviction against a salesman who was found guilty of raping an underage teenage girl whom he had befriended through Facebook.
Judge Azman Abdullah, however, reduced the jail term from 12 years to eight years against Khoo Kean Giap, 23, handed down by the Sessions Court on Sept 7 last year. However, the imposition of whipping was upheld.
Azman ordered Khoo to serve the sentence from today, rejecting an application by counsel R Devadasan to suspend execution of the sentence pending appeal.
The Sessions Court had sentenced the salesman to 12 years’ jail and imposed two strokes of the rotan after finding him guilty of raping the 13-year-old girl.
Khoo, who knew the victim through Facebook, was charged with raping the teenager in the bedroom of a luxury apartment in Cheras at 8pm in October 2012.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Aznika Mohd Anas conducted the prosecution.
– BERNAMA
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