Man gets 22 years' jail, 24 strokes for raping half-sister
Published on Aug 02, 2013
A 39-year-old man has been sentenced to 22 years in jail and 24 strokes of the cane for raping his half-sister who has a low IQ. -- ST FILE PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN
By Selina Lum
A 39-year-old man has been sentenced to 22 years in jail and 24 strokes of the cane for raping his half-sister who has a low IQ.
The High Court had found him guilty of raping the teenage girl - with whom he shares a mother - over two nights in March 2010, when she was staying in his one-room flat.
Both cannot be named to avoid identifying the victim, who was 18 years old at the time.
The man, a car polisher, had pleaded guilty last year to raping and sodomising her. But in February, he withdrew his plea, maintaining his innocence and claiming that he had admitted to the charges only to "save his wife".