SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA: He invited his 14-year-old girlfriend to "party" in his apartment, where he tried to coax her into having sex with him.

The rendezvous however, resulted in the 24-year-old being sentenced at the Sessions Court to nine years' jail and one stroke of the rotan for raping a minor.

Odd job worker Rahime Mohd Hata, of Bukit Beruntung, Rawang, was charged with committing the offence at an unit in Apartment Dahlia, Bukit Beruntung one evening in December 2006.

Yesterday, he pleaded guilty.