KUALA LUMPUR: On March 14, the High Court of Singapore sentenced a 34-year-old man to 16 years in jail for raping and molesting his biological mother.
The man, who cannot be named due to a court-imposed gag order to protect the identity of the victim, had raped his own mother in the early hours of Oct 4, 2013.
According to a report in Channel NewsAsia, the son assaulted his mother, then 53 years old, after returning home to find her asleep and alone in the family’s one-bedroom flat.
While the mother pleaded for him to stop, he molested and raped her.
After a trial which spanned two years, the High Court convicted him of three charges of rape, molestation and aggravated molestation. The man, however, denied all three charges against him.
During the trial, the man's legal team had argued that he had been framed by his mother and stepfather, who had plotted to "get rid of him".
But deputy public prosecutor Sharmila Sripathy-Shanaz shot back, saying that the victim "learnt what it meant to be re-victimised."
She said while the mother and son didn't share a close relationship, she invited him to live with her and her second husband in their one-bedroom flat.
“The son, who has past convictions for drug-related offences, burglary and robbery and had nowhere to live, was made to feel at home… (as he was) her flesh and blood," Sharmila said.
When the man's legal team argued that the mother could have "shut the gates by crossing her legs", the prosecutor responded by saying that "after enduring a sexual assault at the hands of her son, (she) is assaulted at trial by scandalous questions designed to attack her, to (portray her as) a loose woman, a terrible mother and a liar," Channel NewsAsia reported.
The man's defence, however, fell flat on its face after an audio recording of phone calls between him and his mother was played during the trial.
In the recording, the son is heard threatening his mother “that what happened was ‘between us’ and he would ‘want (it) again’”.
While the prosecutor had urged the court to impose a sentence of 18 years in jail and 19 strokes of the cane, the High Court judge ordered 18 strokes of the cane along with his 16 year sentence. – SAYS.COM
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