Published on 26 February 2019 The couple was also placed on a three-year good behaviour bond and to do 48 hours of community service, or to serve another year in jail. — AFP pic JOHOR BARU, Feb 26 — A bus driver and his wife were sentenced to 24 months’ jail each by the Sessions Court here today after the couple pleaded guilty to a charge of abusing their 12-year-old son.
The couple was also placed on a three-year good behaviour bond and to do 48 hours of community service, or to serve another year in jail. They were charged, as the persons having the care of the child, to have abused and neglected the boy in a manner likely to cause him physical injury at their house at Pangsapuri Desa Melayu here between 2017 and February 18 this year. The boy, who does not attend school, is Yuliani’s biological child and Muhammad Farid’s step-son.