SINGAPORE: When her mother contracted breast cancer, a young girl grew closer to an elderly family friend, but this man allegedly abused her sexually, impregnated her and made her get an abortion.
The Singaporean man, now 77, went on trial on Monday (Jul 20) for 10 charges, mostly for committing obscene acts with a young person and sexual penetration of a minor.
Another three charges were stood down or set aside temporarily while the trial proceeds.
The court imposed gag orders which forbid the identification of the man and the alleged victim.
THE CASE
The man was a 64-year-old insurance agent who owned a business at the time of the offences in 2012 and 2013.
The alleged victim’s mother was his secretary.
The man had been a close family friend since the alleged victim was a toddler, the prosecution said.
When the girl’s mother contracted breast cancer when the girl was in Secondary 2, the man was entrusted with looking after the girl and her older sister.
Instead, he crossed emotional and physical boundaries and entered into an inappropriate relationship with the girl when she was 14, alleged Deputy Public Prosecutors Tay Jia En and Tan Jun Ya.
The prosecution will lead evidence from five witnesses at the trial, with the alleged victim as their main witness.
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