A 65-year-old man from Akmeemana has been sentenced to 15 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually abusing a 1-year-and-8-month-old girl. The Galle High Court handed down the sentence after the convict was found guilty on two charges. The first charge carried a three-year sentence, while the second resulted in 12 years of rigorous imprisonment. During the trial, it was revealed that in 2018, the suspect forcibly took the toddler from a neighboring house where she was with her mother, under the pretext of taking her somewhere, and sexually abused her. In addition to the prison term, the judge ordered the…
65-year-old man sentenced to 15 years for abusing toddler
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