A 67-year-old man has been charged in Brunei's Magistrate Court recently with sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl.
No plea was taken from the defendant at the mention of the case last week for the charge alleging him of performing sexual acts on the minor at a hut in the capital on August 30.In another earlier case, the Brunei Intermediate Court raised serious doubts on a daycare centre’s training procedures after sentencing an 18-year-old worker to six months’ jail for harming a one-year-old under her care.
She added that it was a concern that the defendant only had little training before being allowed to look after children.
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