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SINGAPORE \u2013 Over three decades, a man sexually assaulted 11 young girls: his daughter, his son\u2019s two daughters, four nieces and four other children.<\/p>\n
The victims were between the ages of five and 10 when he started preying on them, prosecutors told the High Court on July 24.<\/p>\n
The man and his wife ran an enrichment centre from 1997 to 2021, and before that, he conducted tuition lessons at home.<\/p>\n
The four other victims were children who attended the centre or were tutored by the man.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
On July 24, he pleaded guilty to 10 charges in relation to six of the victims.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The remaining 23 charges will be taken into consideration when he is sentenced on Sept 7.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Deputy Public Prosecutor Jiang Ke-yue sought a jail term of 32 to 36 years for the heinous offences.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a danger to children,\u201d the prosecutor said, citing a psychiatric report which stated the man has paedophilic disorder.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor noted the man had been imprisoned twice for sexual offences, including a jail term of two years and two months imposed in 2020 for sexually abusing three sisters at the enrichment centre.<\/p>\n
The man started preying on his granddaughters two years after he was released from prison in 2021, he added.<\/p>\n
It was after the granddaughters revealed to their mother what the man had done to them, that the man\u2019s daughter disclosed her own abuse.<\/p>\n
The man, who has two sons, admitted that he began sexually assaulting his daughter in 1997 when she was six to seven years old.<\/p>\n
He would molest her while they were in the front seat of his van.<\/p>\n
She was confused by his actions, but he told her he was \u201csayanging\u201d her, a term meaning to show affection. She did not think anything was wrong as he was her father.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He also sexually abused her in her bedroom or in the master bedroom when his wife was not home.<\/p>\n
The girl, who was afraid the family would split up, did not tell anyone what he had done.<\/p>\n
He stopped sexually abusing her in 2005 after the rape.<\/p>\n
In 2023, the older granddaughter, then seven years old, was sleeping in a room when the man locked the door, while the rest of the family was outside.<\/p>\n
The man, who was then 68 years old, showed her a video of a man and woman having sex before sexually assaulting her.<\/p>\n
That year, he molested the younger granddaughter while they were watching TV.<\/p>\n
On Aug 4, 2023, the younger girl told her mother the man had touched her.<\/p>\n
When the woman asked if this had happened to other children, the older girl disclosed what the man had done to her.<\/p>\n
The sisters\u2019 mother then lodged a police report.<\/p>\n
One of the nieces was sexually abused between 1995 and 1996 when she was nine to 12 years old.<\/p>\n
She went to the man\u2019s home for tuition, and would stay over on Fridays to play with the man\u2019s children, who were her cousins.<\/p>\n
Once, when she cried, he gave her $50 and told her not to tell anyone what had happened.<\/p>\n
The girl later came up with excuses not to go for tuition.<\/p>\n
One of the aunts later confronted the man, and he apologised to his niece.<\/p>\n
Another victim attended enrichment classes from 2006 to 2012. She was six years old when he pulled her close to him and molested her.<\/p>\n
The sixth victim, who attended the centre in 2010, was 10 years old when she was molested at the water cooler.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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