Mother discovers daughter was raped after reading her diary

The girl had written in her diary that the mother's former boyfriend had raped her while the woman was on a working visit to China.

PETALING JAYA: A mother discovered that her 12-year-old daughter had been raped by the woman’s former boyfriend after reading her diary.

The 44-year-old woman made the shocking discovery last Wednesday when she entered her youngest daughter’s room and found her diary, the New Straits Times reported today.

The daughter had written of her painful experience of being sexually abused by the 40-year-old man in April while the mother was on a working visit to China.

When the woman confronted her daughter, the girl revealed that she was raped by the man four times between April and July this year at their house in Kajang Perdana.

It is understood that the boyfriend and the woman had been living in the house with her children for the past five years.

The mother lodged a report at the Kajang police station the following day.

“On Monday, we arrested the man, who is a manager with a hydraulic company, and he has been remanded for six days,” Kajang police chief Assistant Commissioner Dzaffir Mohd Yussof said.

He said the suspect was expected to be charged tomorrow.

Dzaffir said the case was being investigated under Section 376 of the Penal Code for rape, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment and caning upon conviction. FMT