Warning: This report contains distressing details of child sexual abuse.
SINGAPORE: A 55-year-old man was found guilty on Wednesday (May 20) of outraging the modesty of his stepdaughter, then eight or nine years old, making her perform a sex act.
The case came to light after the girl confided in her babysitter about the acts in 2021, years after they had taken place. The babysitter told the girl’s mother, who took her to file a police report.
The parties involved cannot be named due to a court order protecting the victim.
At the time of the offences, the man was married to the victim’s mother, who also had another son – the victim’s half-brother. The family lived in a one-room flat when the man moved in with them.
Eventually, the couple had six children together, and the family moved to a larger flat on the same floor in 2016 or 2017, the court heard. The man and the girl’s mother divorced in 2022.
One night in 2016 or 2017, when the family was in the midst of moving to the new flat, the man asked the victim, then in Primary 3, to follow him so that they could perform prayers for the new house.
Armed with a book and a carrot, he took her to the new public housing unit and locked the gate. No one else was with them.
