A three-member Court of Appeal bench said the original 10-year sentence did not adequately reflect the seriousness of rape offences against children or serve as a deterrent. (Reuters pic)PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal today increased a former domestic worker’s prison sentence from 10 to 15 years for raping a 13-year-old girl in a hotel room in 2022.
A three-member bench chaired by Justice Azman Abdullah invoked Section 60 of the Courts of Judicature Act 1964 to enhance the sentence imposed on Indonesian Zulpandy Rispen Effendi.
Azman said the original 10-year sentence did not adequately reflect the seriousness of rape offences against children or serve as a deterrent.
“The 10-year jail sentence did not give a message to the public on the seriousness of rape offences against children,” he said.
