SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man befriended an underage girl living overseas and made her perform sex acts during video chats.
At around the same time, he was being investigated for sexually exploiting another minor.
In September 2020, Sebastian Lye Chee Weng, now 32, stopped communicating with the American girl living in the state of Georgia, after he was convicted and sentenced to over eight monthsâ jail in the earlier case.
Following his release, Lye was placed on a remission order, and was supposed to keep himself out of trouble from March 20 to June 13, 2021.
However, he had a video call with the American girl during his remission and asked her to perform a sex act, which she complied.
Police later raided his home in April 2022 and found that he had 12,755 files of sexually explicit material involving children.
On June 5, Lye was sentenced to five years and 11 monthsâ jail, and three strokes of the cane.
He also has to spend an additional 66 days behind bars after breaching the remission order.
The man had pleaded guilty to multiple offences including sexually exploiting a child.
Court documents stated that in October 2018, Lye befriended the girl, who was then 12 years old, on a social media platform.
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