Grade five student among five arrested for gang rape of minor in Tawau | New Straits Times

TAWAU: A Grade 5 student was among five people arrested by police for raping a 15-year-old girl three times between June 13 and July 5.

District police chief, Deputy Police Commissioner Jasmin Hussin, said the victim’s mother filed a complaint. Police arrested the suspects, aged between 17 and 20, at 11am yesterday.

In the report, the victim’s mother claimed that her daughter was raped three times by the suspects.

According to the report, the attacks took place in the victim’s room between midnight and 3 a.m. on June 13, June 20 and July 5.

“The suspects are said to have broken into the victim’s room before she was gang raped,” he told TV3’s Buletin Utama today.

Jasmin added that the victim’s mother claimed that her daughter was frequently harassed by male students at her school before the incident.

Jasmin said the suspects also allegedly threatened the victim that they would expose and spread the assaults if she did not comply with their demands.

The suspects were brought before the district court this morning for remand.

The five suspects, except for the secondary school student, were remanded in custody for seven days until July 16. The fifth-grade student was remanded in custody for four days until July 13 to facilitate investigations.