KOTA KINABALU, Sept 13 — An unemployed man was jailed for one month and fined RM2,500, in default, a month’s jail by a Magistrate’s Court here for outraging the modesty of a woman in a toilet.
Md Sapri Abdul Rahim, 29, pleaded guilty before magistrate Wan Farrah Farriza Wan Ghazali to insult the dignity of the 32-year-old woman by using his cellphone to film her without her knowledge inside the women’s toilet at the airport on August 17.
He was convinced under Section 509 of the Penal Code, which carries a jail term of up to five years, or a fine, or both, upon conviction.
The court ordered him to serve his sentence from the date of conviction.
The prosecution told the court that while the woman was using the toilet, she saw a phone being pointed towards her from under the partition of the next cubicle.
She then screamed and later went out to confront the intruder and repeatedly knocked on the door until a man emerged.
When questioned, he denied recording her and ran off.
The victim had then lodged a police report of the incident which led to an arrest of Md Sapri for investigation. — The Borneo Post
