A FEMALE teacher was acquitted and discharged by the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today, on two charges of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old male student, three years ago.
Judge Tasnim Abu Bakar ruled this way after finding that the prosecution had failed to prove a prima facie case at the end of its case against the 32-year-old teacher.
“Therefore, you are acquitted and discharged from both charges,” he told the accused, who appeared calm in the dock.
According to the first and second charges, the accused, as a person in a trust relationship, namely the teacher, was charged with physically sexually assaulting a teenager who was 15 years and three months old at the time of the incident.
For the first charge, the offence was allegedly committed in a car on the side of Datuk Abdul Malik Road at 8 pm on June 23, 2023.
The charge was made under Section 14(a) of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017, which is punishable by imprisonment for not more than 20 years and may also be punished with whipping and read together with Section 16(1) of the same act.
For Section 16(1) of the same act, the accused is punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years and not less than two strokes of the cane.
Meanwhile, for the second charge, she is alleged to have committed the offence in a car at the Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz bus stop at 9 pm on the same date.
The case was made under Section 14(b) of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017, which is read together with Section 16(1) of the same act, which carries a prison sentence of not more than 20 years and may also be punished with whipping. – April 29, 2026
