KUALA LUMPUR: He blamed his violence on a "sudden feeling which overcame him".But for this 17-year-old -- who was just a month short of being tried as an adult -- that moment will cost him three years at the Henry Gurney home for juvenile offenders.
The teenager, who was working at Tunku Abdul Rahman College as a security guard, maintained his guilty plea in the Children's Court yesterday to attempted rape, molest and causing hurt to an 18-year-old female student at the college.
Magistrate Nurulizwan Ahmad Zubir also ordered him to be placed under a good behaviour bond for three years after his release from the reform school.
His mother, 37, stood surety for him after the court set bail at RM5,000 in one surety.
The youth from Gombak Setia was charged with:
- causing hurt to the first-year business studies student at the TARC Lecture Hall B;
- attempting to rape her at Lecture Hall 2; and
- molesting her at the same place.
The three offences were committed between 5.30pm and 5.50pm on April 21.
He admitted bashing the girl on her head with a rock in front of Lecture Hall B before dragging her to Lecture Hall 2 and sexually assaulting her.
She received eight stitches on the back of her head and now suffers from blurred vision in the right eye.
The accused, who is the eldest of five children of a production operator, 42, and a housewife, could have been sentenced to a maximum of 23 years' jail and whipping had he committed the offences a month later.
Chief Inspector Afandi Kasiman prosecuted, while welfare officer Othman Ismail read the probation report on the accused.
Othman said the boy regretted his actions as they were a result of a "sudden feeling which overcame him".
"He did not intend to hurt the student," Othman said.
According to facts, the victim was walking along a pedestrian lane in the college when the teenage security guard threw a rock at her from behind, causing her to fall to the ground.
He then dragged her into a nearby storeroom, undressed her and began to molest her. When she screamed, he repeatedly hit her on the head with the rock.
He tried to rape her, but when he failed to do so, he rolled his clothes to form a rope and tried to strangle her.
After begging him to stop, he set her free and she sought help from a male college mate who took her to a clinic.
She later lodged a police report at the Sentul police headquarters.
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