SINGAPORE – He was 12 to 13 years old when he began inappropriately touching his younger sister, who was then five to six years old.
The sexual abuse eventually escalated to rape, which continued until the victim was 12 years old.
On May 18, the perpetrator, who is now 26 years old, was sentenced to 18 years’ jail and 24 strokes of the cane after he pleaded guilty to a charge of rape and two charges of aggravated sexual assault by penetration.
Eight other charges, for sexual offences ranging from outrage of modesty to rape, were taken into consideration during sentencing.
The man admitted that he sexually abused the victim between 2012 and 2019, when she was between five and 12 years old, and he was between 12 and 19 years old.
In sentencing the man, High Court Judge Mavis Chionh considered that the offences were committed over an extended period of seven years.
Justice Chionh said the prolonged sexual abuse also resulted in grave psychological harm to the victim, who had engaged in self-harm by cutting her wrists.
