The Court of Appeal on Monday (Sept 23) upheld a nine-year jail sentence and two strokes of the cane imposed on a former Arab language teacher of a primary school for physical sexual assault of a 10-year-old male student.
This followed a decision by a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeal led by Datuk Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim in dismissing the appeal by 38-year-old, Mohd Shahril Shaffie against his conviction and sentence handed down by the Putrajaya Sessions Court in 2020.
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This followed a decision by a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeal led by Datuk Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim in dismissing the appeal by 38-year-old, Mohd Shahril Shaffie against his conviction and sentence handed down by the Putrajaya Sessions Court in 2020.
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00:00The Court of Appeal on Monday upheld a nine-year jail sentence and two strokes of the cane
00:05imposed on a former Arab language teacher of a primary school for physical sexual assault
00:11of a 10-year-old male student in 2018.
00:14This followed a decision by a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeal led by Datuk
00:20Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim in dismissing the appeal by 38-year-old Mohamed Shahril Shafi against
00:26his conviction and sentence handed down by the Putrajaya Sessions Court in 2020.
00:33In a unanimous decision, Judge Ahmad Zaidi said the court found that Mohamed Shahril's
00:40appeal had no merit.
00:42The court also disagreed with the appellant's lawyer that the sentence handed down by the
00:46trial judge was excessive.
00:50The court said the appellant is a teacher who is entrusted to guide children but has
00:55abused his position to the extent that the victim is traumatized and the reputation
01:00of the school is also affected as a result of the appellant's actions.
01:05Justice Ahmad Zaidi also ordered Mohamed Shahril to serve the prison sentence starting Monday.
01:11In September 2020, the Special Courts for Sexual Crimes Against Children found Mohamed
01:17Shahril guilty of committing physical sexual assault on the 10-year-old boy by holding
01:22the victim's private part in November 2018 at his home in Subang Bastari, Shah Alam.
01:29Judge Yong Zarida Sazali also ordered for him to undergo rehabilitation counselling
01:34for eight years and be under police supervision for three years after completing his prison
01:40sentence.