SINGAPORE – While his pregnant wife was out running errands, a man raped a deaf and mute 13-year-old girl.
The man, now 24, was sentenced to a jail term of 12 years and nine months, as well as 12 strokes of the cane, on Aug 5.
He pleaded guilty to rape and a charge of being absent without leave from his national service duties with the Singapore Civil Defence Force for over a year.
Another two molest charges were taken into consideration for sentencing.
He cannot be named due to a gag order on the identities of both the man and victim.
The incident happened in November 2024, when the man was living in a two-room rental flat with his wife. She was then about five months into her pregnancy.
The court heard that the man and his wife knew the victim and her family. His wife was the goddaughter of the victim’s mother, while he was a secondary schoolmate of the victim’s older brother.
The victim, who called him “uncle”, initially found him “nice, kind and funny”. They would communicate through very basic sign language and gestures, and by messages on their phones.
On Nov 2, 2024, the victim’s mother had to attend an event and told the girl to spend the night at the man’s flat.
The night passed uneventfully, but the next morning, the wife left the flat at around 9am to run errands and left the girl and the man alone.
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