00:00The Klang Sessions Court sentenced a member of Global Ikhwan Service and Business Holdings
00:06G.I.S.B. to a total of 10 years jail for abusing three boys under his care.
00:13Judge Norida Adam meted out the sentence after Mohamed Barour Rahim Hisam pleaded guilty
00:18to four charges leveled against him on Thursday.
00:21The 23-year-old, a caretaker of a children's home managed by G.I.S.B., was accused of using
00:27a cane and other forms of aggression to abuse the boys, aged 10 and 11.
00:33The offences were committed at two premises owned by G.I.S.B. in Bukit Raja in the months
00:38of June, July and September this year.
00:41He was charged under Section 31, Subsection 1A of the Child Act 2001, which provides for
00:47a fine not exceeding 20,000 ringgit or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or both.
00:56During proceedings, Mohamed Barour, who was unrepresented, pleaded for a light sentence,
01:02claiming that he had repented and vowed not to repeat the offences.
01:08However, Deputy Public Prosecutor Datin Kalmiza Saleh requested for maximum punishment considering
01:15the severity of the offence.
01:17She also said the victims had been left traumatised and haunted by the abuse.
01:22Mohamed Barour was sentenced to two years' jail for the first two charges and three
01:28years for the third and fourth charges.
01:31The judge ordered the sentences to run consecutively, which means that the accused would have to
01:36serve out the decade.
01:38She also imposed a five-year good behaviour bond with a surety of 10,000 ringgit, failing
01:43which the accused would have to serve another six months in jail for each charge.
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