'Mandatory sentencing for statutory rape wrong'

comments     Lim Chee Wee     Published     Updated

COMMENT It has been reported that the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz announced that Section 376 of the Penal Code, which carries a minimum jail sentence of not less than five years and a maximum of not more than twenty years and whipping, for rape, including statutory rape, would be amended .

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