Poor rapist, Lucky rapist

The story of Malaysian courts' flip-flop upon Statutory Rape: Mostly everyone will agree with High Court judge. But we've seen something similar to this before. In a box of inhabitant bowler Noor Afizal Azizan, who raped a 13-year old, a High Court additionally overturned a Sessions Court's light sentence with jail. Noor Afizal appealed and a Courts of Appeal let him off with a bound over for good behavior for five years, since he had a bright future. So Chuah Guan Ju can still shun custodial sentence, if he can infer that he has a splendid future too ...


"In statutory rape, agree is irrelevant. A womanlike underneath sixteen is deemed incapable of giving agree underneath a law." - Zakaria Sam, High Court Judge
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