SINGAPORE: A 72-year-old man was sentenced to 23 years’ jail on Monday (Jul 20) for sexually abusing his step-granddaughter over five years from when she was aged just nine.
The Singaporean man, who cannot be named due to gag orders protecting the victim, pleaded guilty to three charges of aggravated statutory rape.
Another 18 charges were considered in sentencing.
The court heard that the offender was in his 60s at the time of the offences, while the child was between nine and 13. She called him “grandfather”.
From 2018 to July 2023, the man sexually assaulted the victim multiple times in his car and at a flat.
In 2018, the victim routinely visited her step-grandfather once or twice a month. He would ask her to accompany him to a mall and promised to buy her what she liked.
He did this only to her and not to any of the other grandchildren, because he wanted to get her alone for sex acts.
He would drive the girl to a multi-storey car park where he sexually abused her, rewarding her after each instance by buying her art supplies or other items she liked.
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