Sabahan charged with bribing child-brides dad to drop rape complaint

June 03, 2013

KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 3 A 40-year-old Sabahan, indicted of raping a 12-year-old lady whom he after married, was currently charged with bribing her father to withdraw his military report.

Riduan Masmud, a father of four, has claimed trial to charity his child-brides father RM5,000 upon April eighteen as well as profitable a latter RM2,000 as well as RM3,000 in between 9pm as well as midnight during separate locations in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah upon a same day, The Star Online news portal reported.

Sessions Court decider Caroline Bee Majanil expelled Riduan upon RM2,000 bail in one surety after his lawyer Loretto S. Padua Jr pleaded for a rebate of a RM10,000 bail in dual sureties due by emissary open prosecutor Mukhriz Mat Rus, who acted for a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

This volume is too high as well as my customer cannot means it, Loretto was quoted as revelation a court. He reportedly pronounced Riduan had been dangling from his job as a grill manager as well as was now operative part-time.

The decider also set Jun 21 as a box government date.

Riduan has been indicted of raping a girl, then aged twelve years as well as 6 months, in a parked automobile in Inanam around 10am upon Feb 18.

The incident which has sparked a open uproar came to light when a girls aunt filed a military report.

Despite being charged with statutory rape upon Feb 28, he reportedly proceeded to marry a lady in a syariah justice soon after.

The Sessions Court has reportedly been informed which a syariah matrimony certificate had been presented to a questioning officer to confirm a 40-year-old was now wed to a lady he had allegedly raped.

Riduan is reported to have fathered dual girls as well as dual boys with his first wife; a youngest aged dual as well as a eldest, a 17-year-old girl, was reported by The Star Online as having accompanied her father to justice today.

He is due to reappear in justice this Thursday to find! out if a Attorney-General will proceed with charging him with statutory rape.

A-G Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail (picture) had final month pronounced he will press statutory rape charges against a 40-year-old in any box of a mans matrimony to a minor.

The open prosecutor was formerly reported to have forsaken a assign after Riduan declared he taken a lady as his second wife, a preference which sparked a open storm.

We have never forsaken a assign against him.

I have destined my officers to gather some-more justification as well as we will proceed with a case, Abdul Gani told reporters in Putrajaya upon May 22.

He pronounced his bureau was pciking up further evidence, together with a DNA report, as well as was also asking a MACC to investigate a explain by a girls father which Riduan paid him RM5,000 as compensation, a preference which had reportedly been handed down by Sabahs Mahkamah Adat, a special custom court.

The Sabah Welfare Department is taking stairs to take a lady under a caring as well as insurance whilst trying to nullify her matrimony to Riduan.

Sabah Community Development as well as Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Jainab Ahmad was reported as observant she had destined her officers to take immediate movement to obtain a justice order to have a lady placed under a caring as well as insurance of a dialect under a Child Act 2001.

The lady was usually twelve years as well as 6 months. we believe a plant is in a trauma. She should be stable instead marrying a male who had raped her, she was quoted as observant upon May 22 by state news agency Bernama.

Jainab had expel disbelief upon a validity of a matrimony in between Riduan as well as a lady after checking with syariah justice officials.

A registrar told me there were dual applications, one from a male seeking consent to take! a secon d wife, as well as another from a father of a lady seeking permission for his daughter to marry.

They told me a fathers application was authorised but there was no consent since for a male to take a second wife, a state apportion was quoted as saying.

Reports of child marriages in Malaysia have been augmenting in a final couple of years, as have cases of adults who had sex with minors evading prison time.


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