The Taungoo District Court on May 22 sentenced two men to death by hanging for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old Grade-9 student girl from Kyun Kone Village, Taungoo Township, Bago Region. The deceased Grade-9 student lived with her mother and was raped and murdered on the morning of March 19 when she was left alone at home because her mother had gone out.
The police questioned a suspected neighbor who lived next door to the victim’s house, and it was revealed that he and another man from the same village had confessed to raping the Grade-9 student, tying a nylon rope around her neck and killing her with a machete. As a result, the two perpetrators were arrested under Sections 376/302 of the Penal Code and charged before the Taungoo District Court, which subsequently ordered their hanging.