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Conviction Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship Traditional healing practitioners Batang Kali, Selangor, Malaysia · 2018

EE Yong Nan: Court of Appeal upholds 12-year sentence for rape during a purported cleansing ritual

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Disposition and response

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Appellate history

  • The High Court dismissed EE's first appeal in 2024. The Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the rape conviction and sentence on September 22, 2025. The separate causing-hurt conviction was not part of that appeal. No later Federal Court disposition was located.

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

medium, traditional healer invited to address claimed spiritual disturbances

Organization

No organization assigned

Archive classification

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The couple contacted EE because they believed their home was affected by spiritual disturbances. He attended as a medium to perform a cleansing ritual, directed companions to take the victim's boyfriend elsewhere and isolated the victim in a bedroom before the offense. The Court of Appeal expressly treated his role as a traditional healer as a breach of trust.

  • Spiritual healing or treatment
  • Ritual, oath, or initiation
  • Other spiritual authority or belief

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. Date in cited record · convictions and sentence

    Sessions Court, Malaysia. The court convicted EE of raping an adult during the March 30, 2018 visit and imposed twelve years' imprisonment and five strokes of the cane. It separately imposed eight months for causing hurt to the victim's boyfriend; the sentences run concurrently.

  2. Date in cited record · appeal dismissed

    High Court of Malaya. The High Court dismissed EE's appeal and upheld the Sessions Court disposition. The reviewed source does not supply a more precise decision date.

  3. 2025-09-22 · rape conviction and sentence affirmed

    Court of Appeal of Malaysia. A unanimous three-judge panel dismissed EE's appeal from the rape conviction and sentence. The panel held the sentence appropriate in light of the breach of trust inherent in his role as a traditional healer.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • claimed spiritual-cleansing service
  • ritual authority in a private home
  • directions separating the adult victim from her partner and companions
  • breach of healer trust
  • later payment demand and retention of property

Cited record

Sources

national news agency appellate reporting appellate disposition and nexus Bernama, 'Court Of Appeal Upholds Medium's 12-year Jail, Caning For Rape' (Sept. 22, 2025).

Malaysia's national news agency reports from the appellate hearing and identifies the panel, unanimous disposition, sentence, breach-of-trust finding, prior appeals, ritual-cleansing facts, isolation of the victim, separate hurt conviction and later payment demand.

national newspaper wire republication appellate report republication Malay Mail / Bernama, 'Court of Appeal upholds 12-year jail term, caning for medium who raped teacher during cleansing ritual' (Sept. 22, 2025).

The national newspaper's publication preserves Bernama's detailed courtroom account and corroborates the public record. Because it is a wire republication rather than independent reporting, it is not counted as a separate source-of-record.

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https://www.bernama.com/en/news.php?id=2470021 Corpus classification: national-news-agency-appellate-reporting; evidentiary role: appellate-disposition-and-nexus. SHA-256 e3f752873767d63756d9e2e2e638084f241619029244fc0f5b6c7725fc06e963
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2026-07-20 · Preserved
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https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2025/09/22/court-of-appeal-upholds-12-year-jail-term-caning-for-medium-who-raped-teacher-during-cleansing-ritual/192007 Corpus classification: national-newspaper-wire-republication; evidentiary role: appellate-report-republication. SHA-256 8fd07b6bf52c44256964093aa54449556a0af7440fd77aae2f745840df9be39e
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2026-07-20 · Preserved
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