MUKAH: A housewife was charged in the Magistrate’s Court here on Wednesday morning with abusing a 5-year-old girl at the worker’s quarters of an oil palm mill in Selangau, recently.
The 25-year-old woman was charged before Magistrate Saiful Bin Sayuti and was allowed bailed of RM10,000 with two local sureties.
She is being charged under Section 325 of the Penal code, read together with Section 326A and section 31(1)(a) Children Act 2001.
As she could not post bail, the accused who hails from Rumah Joseph Sungai Binyo Pandan, Sebauh, was further remanded in prison.
The case has been fixed for hearing at the Mukah Sessions Court on Aug 27 and is believed to be the first abuse case in the district this year.
