JOHOR BAHRU, March 4 -- A 43-year-old security guard was handed down a total of 21 years in prison with 24 strokes of the cane for 13 charges of sodomy, sexual assault, rape and videotaping the sexual abuse of his daughter in January and February.

The sentence was handed down by Judge Nor Aziati Jaafar and Judge Madihah Zainol in two separate chambers at the Sessions Court here today after the accused pleaded guilty to the charges.

The 13 charges involved physical and non-physical sexual assault, as well as sex against the order of nature, producing a video of the sexual abuse and raping his six-year-old daughter.

Prosecution was conducted by Deputy Public Prosecutors, Nur Farah Wahidah Shahudin and S. Manushri, while the accused was u...