PUTRAJAYA, March 12 — The Court of Appeal has reduced the jail sentence of a former debt collector from 13 years to 10 years for sexually assaulting his 11-year-old son in 2019.

VANNES, Mar 1 — When police told Louis-Marie, 35, they believed he had been sexually abused two decades earlier by a surgeon who treated him for appendicitis, he thought it was a prank.

PARIS, Dec 30 — Dominique Pelicot, sentenced to 20 years in jail by a French court for repeatedly drugging and raping his then-wife Gisele for almost a decade and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her, will not appeal, his lawyer said today, although a new trial will take place as 17 co-defendants have appealed.

AVIGNON, Dec 19 — A French court found Dominique Pelicot guilty today of repeatedly drugging and raping his wife for almost a decade, and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her unconscious body in a case that has horrified the world.

PARIS, Dec 18 — Around late September, staff manning the phones at 3919, France’s main anonymous hotline for women who are victims of violence, began noticing a new type of case.

JOHOR BAHRU, Dec 18 — A private orphanage in Kulai, near here, that went viral after its chairman was allegedly involved in rape and abuse cases involving the residents, has been ordered to temporarily close.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 — A security guard was sentenced to 15 years in prison and nine strokes of the cane by the Sessions Court today after pleading guilty to two charges of rape and one charge of having intercourse against the order of nature with a disabled teenage girl, who was also his acquaintance, last month.

SHAH ALAM, Nov 5 — The prosecution in the case of Syed Shah Iqmal Syed Mohd Shaiful has filed an appeal at the High Court seeking longer imprisonment.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24 — A van driver was sentenced to 10 years in prison and two strokes of the cane by the Sessions Court here today after pleading guilty to raping his stepdaughter, who gave birth to their baby last year.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 — A security guard pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court today to charges of raping and sexually assaulting his 15-year-old daughter.

KOLKATA, Oct 22 — Junior doctors in India's eastern city of Kolkata called off a 17-day-old hunger strike yesterday, which launched in protest against the rape and murder of a colleague.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10 — More than 370 million girls and women alive today, or one in every eight worldwide, experienced rape or sexual assault before the age of 18, the United Nations children’s agency said yesterday.

SHAH ALAM, Sept 20 — The High Court has granted celebrity preacher Da'i Syed, whose real name is Syed Shah Iqmal Syed Mohd Shaiful, a stay of execution pending his appeal regarding a conviction for raping a woman five years ago.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 — The Sessions Court has sentenced two men to 11 years in prison and two lashes of the rotan today after finding them guilty of raping an 18-year-old girl in a car in May last year.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — A foreign man has been remanded for seven days starting today to assist in the investigation of a robbery and rape involving an elderly woman at a condominium in Cyberjaya.

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 13 — The police have arrested a foreign man and seized a wallet and mobile phone belonging to a victim who claimed to have been robbed and raped by the suspect at a condominium in Cyberjaya yesterday.

KOTA BHARU, Sept 12 — A labourer was sentenced to 72 years in prison and 60 strokes of the cane by the Sessions Court today for raping his biological daughter, who gave birth to their child last year.

KUALA TERENGGANU, Sept 8 — A grass cutter was sentenced to 42 years in prison and 30 strokes of the cane today after being found guilty of three counts of raping his sister-in-law three years ago.

SHAH ALAM, Aug 30 — Celebrity preacher Syed Shah Iqmal Syed Mohd Shaiful, better known as Da'i Syed, was convicted on a rape charge by the Sessions Court today and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and three strokes of the cane.

KOLKATA, Aug 18 — Some Indian junior doctors remained off the job today, demanding swift justice for a colleague who was raped and murdered, despite the end of a 24-hour strike called by the country’s biggest association of doctors.