SINGAPORE: A delivery man repeatedly raped his stepdaughter from when she was 16, including in the back of his van and in his one-room flat while his wife and six other children were asleep.
When the abuse was uncovered, the victim lost her home after her mother and siblings refused to believe her, and she was placed in a welfare home.
The 43-year-old Singaporean man, who cannot be named by court order to protect the victim’s identity, was sentenced on Tuesday (Sep 1) to 22 years’ jail and 24 strokes of the cane.
He pleaded guilty to four charges of rape, with another nine similar charges taken into consideration.
THE CASE
The court heard that the man lived in a one-room flat with his wife, a 42-year-old woman, and their shared children.
The woman had seven children – four with her first husband, including the victim who is her firstborn, and three with the offender.
They were married towards the end of 2015, when the victim was nine.
The family slept together in the same room, either sharing a bed or sleeping on their own mattresses.
In June 2023, when the victim was 16, she began receiving lewd text messages from her stepfather. When she refused to engage in a sex act with him, he confiscated her phone.
That same month, she accompanied him on his delivery rounds in his van. While they were in a car park in Tampines, the victim was sorting parcels when her stepfather locked the doors and turned off the lights.
He joined the girl in the back and raped her, ignoring her pleas to stop. After this, he returned the girl’s phone to her.
Between July and December that year, he raped her again in the van at least five times.
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