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KUALA LUMPUR – A father who doused his youngest child with boiling hot water for disturbing his sleep was sentenced to six years in jail by the sessions court here today.
Judge Norina Zainol Abidin handed down the sentence on Mohd Yasin Halik, 41, who pleaded guilty to splashing hot water from a water heater on a 6-year-old girl, burning her shoulders and knees.
The offence was committed in a rented room in Jalan Pudu here, at noon on December 1 last year, and is punishable under Section 31(1)(a) of the Child Act 2001, which carries a fine of not more than RM50,000 or a maximum of 20 years imprisonment, or both, upon conviction.
Norina ordered the accused to serve the prison sentence from the date of his arrest on December 11, 2022, and directed him to be of good behaviour, with an unsecured bail bond for three years, and to do 180 hours of community service within six months beginning today.
Based on the facts of the case, at 7pm on December 1, 2022, the complainant, an Indonesian woman named Suma, came home from work and saw the victim and another of her children naked with burns on their bodies.
The woman, who is a cook at a restaurant, asked her children what happened, and they said that their father had poured hot water on them because they were noisy.
The complainant wanted to take them to the hospital, but was prevented by the accused, and she filed a police report on December 9 after one of her children died.
On December 21, the man was brought before the magistrates’ court here on charges of killing his 9-year-old daughter, at the same location at 9pm, on December 9, before the victim’s body was buried in a recreation area.
At the same magistrates’ court, Yasin was sentenced to four months in prison after pleading guilty to splashing hot water on Suma’s body, causing burns on the victim’s back. – Bernama, January 27, 2023