SINGAPORE – A man who lived in a rented room with his wife molested his landlord’s daughter in her own bedroom when she was 12 to 13 years old.

Loh Wai Seng, a 36-year-old permanent resident from Malaysia, was sentenced by the High Court to 3½ years’ jail and seven strokes of the cane on May 20.

He pleaded guilty to a charge of committing an indecent act with a child and two charges of aggravated outrage of modesty.