Man gets 115 years in jail, 50 strokes over four rape counts

Kuala Lumpur: A 42-year-old Malaysian man was on Tuesday sentenced to a total of 115 years in jail and 50 lashes after he pleaded guilty to four counts of rape and one count of sodomy.

Rabidin Satir, from Sabah, was sentenced by a sessions court in Raub here. The accused had pleaded guilty to three counts to raping a 17-year-old girl and an eight-year-old girl in two separate incidents last year. Two other charges were over raping and sodomising a 16-year-old girl, news reports said. The rapist used a knife to threaten his victims, Star newspaper said. When he was first charged last year, Rabidin had pleaded guilty to raping a nine-year-old girl in 2009. PTI