{"id":18655,"date":"2025-12-11T13:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18655"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:26:35","slug":"man-charged-with-molesting-6-year-old-girl-in-changi-airport-transit-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18655","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with molesting 6-year-old girl in Changi Airport transit area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 <!-- -->A man has been handed a molestation charge after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/man-arrested-after-allegedly-molesting-six-year-old-girl-at-changi-airport-transit-area?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">allegedly outraged a six-year-old girl\u2019s modesty<\/p>\n<p><\/a> <!-- -->in the transit area of Changi Airport Terminal 3 on Dec 9. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Jeffrey Alan Carreiro, 46, was also ordered on Dec 11 to be remanded at the Institute of Mental Health for a medical examination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">According to court documents, the American<!-- --> <!-- -->allegedly kissed and touched the girl\u2019s abdomen, lifted the waistband of her trousers and peered inside. The incident is said to have happened at around 5pm on Dec 9.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Police said previously that the child had been sleeping on a bench next to her mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The woman, who woke up and spotted Carreiro, confronted him immediately, said a police spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">She alerted the police when he walked away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">After establishing the man\u2019s identity using CCTV footage, officers from the\u00a0Airport Police Division arrested him\u00a0within four hours of receiving a report about the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">His case will be mentioned again in court on Dec 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">For molesting a child below 14 years old, an offender can be jailed for up to five years, fined or caned, or receive any combination of such punishments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"tags-test-id\">\n<p><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Singapore courts\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Singapore courts<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Crime\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Crime<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Outrage of modesty\/Insulting modesty\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Outrage of modesty\/Insulting modesty<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Crimes against children\/minors\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Crimes against children\/minors<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/man-charged-with-molesting-6-year-old-girl-in-changi-airport-transit-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A man has been handed a molestation charge after he allegedly outraged a six-year-old girl\u2019s modesty in the transit area of Changi Airport&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}