KOTA KINABALU — A student in Sabah’s interior Tenom district has allegedly been raped by her brother for the past three years.
Now 15, the girl finally built the courage to disclose her ordeal to a teacher, who subsequently told the mother and advised her to lodge a police report.
Tenom OCPD Deputy Supt Hasan Majid said after receiving the report on Oct 30, they arrested the 18-year-old suspect.
“Initial investigations found the brother started raping the girl since she was 12. But she didn’t tell anyone, ” he said.
Supt Hasan said the last rape incident allegedly occurred in September.
The suspect has been remanded for seven days to facilitate investigations.
“We’re trying to establish if these alleged incidents were caused by the brother’s exposure to pornographic material, ” he said.