High Court upholds sexual assault conviction against counselling teacher
A former boarding school counselling teacher who was convicted of sexually assaulting six male students three years ago had his conviction upheld by the Kuching High Court today.
The 35-year-old man had been found guilty by the Kuching sessions court in October 2022 of six charges of sexual assault, each carrying a 15-year sentence.
Judicial commissioner Faridz Gohim Abdullah ordered the prison sentences to be served concurrently, reported Dayak Daily. Faridz also upheld the sentence of 24 strokes of the rotan.
According to the facts of the case, the teacher committed the offences against victims aged between 14 and 16, between 11.30pm and 4.00am on separate days in March, April, and May 2018, within the school compound.
Investigations revealed that several of the students were assaulted more than once.
