SINGAPORE – Over three decades, a man sexually assaulted 11 young girls: his daughter, his son’s two daughters, four nieces and four other children.
The victims were between the ages of five and 10 when he started preying on them, prosecutors told the High Court on July 24.
The man and his wife ran an enrichment centre from 1997 to 2021, and before that, he conducted tuition lessons at home.
The four other victims were children who attended the centre or were tutored by the man.
He raped his daughter in 2005 when she was 15 years old. He told her not to tell anyone because the family would split up, and it would be her fault.
In 2023, after sexually assaulting his seven-year-old granddaughter, he told her that if she told anyone, she would not be his favourite grandchild.
The man, who is now 70 and has a rare blood cancer known as myelofibrosis, faces a total of 33 charges for various sexual offences committed against the 11 victims.
On July 24, he pleaded guilty to 10 charges in relation to six of the victims.
These include one for rape, one for sexual assault by penetration, four for committing an obscene act involving a child, one for showing pornography to a child, two for unnatural sex and one for outrage of modesty.
The remaining 23 charges will be taken into consideration when he is sentenced on Sept 7.
The man, who uses a wheelchair, cannot be caned as he is above 50 years old. He cannot be named due to a gag order to prevent the victims from being identified.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Jiang Ke-yue sought a jail term of 32 to 36 years for the heinous offences.
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