JOHOR BARU: A senior citizen has claimed trial at the Sessions Court here to two charges of molesting his eight-year-old granddaughter.
The 74-year-old man pleaded not guilty in front of Sessions Judge Wan Mohd Norisham Wan Yaakob after the two charges were read out to him in Mandarin here on Sunday (April 11).
Based on the charge sheet, the unemployed man allegedly committed the offence at a house along Jalan Bukit Impian in Taman Impian Emas near Skudai at around 6pm on March 6.
In the first charge, the accused was charged with molesting the victim by making the child touch herself, an offence under Section 14(c) of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act.