Welfare home worker jailed 36 years for sexually abusing 5 boys
A welfare home caretaker in Malaysia has been sentenced to 36 years in prison and six strokes of the cane for sexually abusing five children. This sentence follows a previous 11-year jail term for similar crimes against two other boys.
Why it matters
The case highlights systemic failures in child protection services and the legal system's response to repeat offenders in vulnerable care settings.
Share V Retna was sentenced to 11 years in prison last month for similar offences against two boys. V Retna being escorted by prisons department personnel at the Ampang court complex. AMPANG JAYA : A caretaker at a children’s welfare home, who was already jailed 11 years for sexually abusing two boys, was sentenced to a further 36 years in prison by the sessions court today for similar offences against five boys. V Retna, 25, pleaded guilty to nine charges of sexually abusing the boys, who were between eight and 13 years of age at the time of the offences.
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