The day's essential Malaysian news, briefed.
A former Singapore teacher has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment after being convicted of sexual abuse and grooming of an underage female student. The 41-year-old was found guilty of three counts of indecent acts with a child and one count of sexual grooming.
A 66-year-old wheelchair user in Singapore has been sentenced to 12 years and 11 months imprisonment for systematically sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy between 2020 and 2023, exploiting the child with small payments and cigarettes.
A Singapore court has sentenced a 22-year-old man to over nine years in prison and 12 strokes of the cane for sexually abusing two 13-year-old girls. He deceived them about his age and manipulated them into relationships before assaulting them.
A Muar court has handed down a 33-year prison sentence and 14 cane strokes to a 67-year-old grandfather who admitted to sexually abusing his two granddaughters over multiple incidents.
A 20-year-old man in Singapore has been ordered to undergo at least one year of reformative training after admitting to raping two underage girls and taking intimate photographs of his teenage cousin without consent.