Brunei jails six-year-old girl’s molester

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Borneo Bulletin/Asia Information Community): A 50-year-old native man was sentenced to fifteen months’ jail by the Justice of the Peace’s Court docket on Wednesday (June 8) for outraging the modesty of a six-year-old lady.

Asahrin Idris first claimed trial to the cost and solely pleaded responsible as Prosecutor Atiyyah Abas was within the midst of manufacturing her fourth witness.

Senior Justice of the Peace Pengiran Hazirah Mohd Yusof, on handing the sentence, took under consideration the sufferer’s tender age, his denial on the first occasion resulting in the sufferer’s ordeal of reliving the reminiscence of being sexually assaulted and having taken benefit of the sufferer’s vulnerability.

The court docket additionally famous the defendant’s lengthy listing of earlier convictions and having proven no regret or remorse for what he had achieved.

The defendant’s case was additionally aggravated by the truth that he solely pleaded responsible after having absconded from showing in court docket.

Prosecutor Atiyyah revealed that the defendant was in the lounge of a home in Kampong Delima when he referred to as for the sufferer on the night of Oct 25, 2020. They talked when the defendant out of the blue leaned over the sufferer and sexually assaulted her.

He then gave her a pencil to distract her from the incident and walked away.

The sufferer instructed her grandfather of the incident which led to a police report and the defendant’s arrest.