KUCHING, Nov. 14 -- A 52-year-old woman was sentenced to five years' imprisonment by the Sessions Court here for allowing her teenage daughter to be sexually abused by her 77-year-old grand-uncle and failing to lodge a police report despite having knowledge about the incident.

Judge Noorhisham Mohd Jaafar imposed the sentence after the woman pleaded guilty to an offence framed under Section 31(1)(b) of the Child Act 2001.

The court ordered her jail term to take effect from the date of her arrest, on October 21 this year.

Noorhisham also ordered her to undergo rehabilitative counselling throughout her imprisonment period under Section 26(1) of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act (SOACA) 2017.

The judge further ordered her to be pl...