On Aug 17, a man who pleaded guilty to 14 charges of molesting five young boys was sentenced to 16 years in prison and 12 strokes of the cane, in three different cases at the Sessions Courts in Kuching, according to news reports.

The Dayakdaily reported that Alladin Lanim had allegedly molested children at a plantation and on the verandah of a house in Lundu, a town 83km west of Kuching.

He had induced them to view pornographic material by...