KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 14 -- DAP advisor Lim Guan Eng has urged the government to provide an explanation in the case of a sexual assault survivor after the Attorney General's Chambers reduced the rape charge against her assailant to a lesser offence without informing her.

The case involves single mother Loh Wai Mun, who has publicly questioned why a rape charge against her assailant was downgraded to a lesser offence of assault with intent to outrage modesty.

Her attacker, who had initially claimed trial to rape under Section 376 of the Penal Code, later pleaded guilty to the reduced charge under Section 354 after the AGC accepted a letter of representation from his lawyers.

He has since paid the RM10,000 fine imposed by the court.

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