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SINGAPORE \u2013 After he was arrested for filming a woman in the shower in 2024, a young man confessed to his father that he had committed sexual offences against his younger half-sister.<\/p>\n
The father called the National Anti-Violence and Sexual Harassment Helpline (NAVH) to seek assistance, and a child protection officer later made a police report regarding the abuse.<\/p>\n
The girl, who was between eight and nine years old when she was sexually assaulted, has the same biological father as the offender.<\/p>\n
On Nov 11, the offender, who is now 24 years old, was sentenced to 17 years\u2019 jail and 24 strokes of the cane.<\/p>\n
He pleaded guilty to five charges: aggravated rape, aggravated sexual assault by penetration, aggravated outrage of modesty, producing child sexual abuse materials and voyeurism.<\/p>\n
Nine other charges were considered during sentencing.<\/p>\n
The man committed sexual offences against his sister between 2022 and 2023, when he was 19 to 20 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He cannot be named due to a gag order to prevent the victims from being identified.<\/p>\n
In sentencing, Justice Mavis Chionh said he had committed multiple offences for a period of at least one year, and that his criminal behaviour was not a one-off incident due to youthful folly.<\/p>\n
The judge noted that the sister experienced suicidal thoughts and recurrent nightmares, and found it difficult to trust others.<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s father also reported that she started peeling skin off her fingers and using vulgarities, and became more rebellious, said the judge.<\/p>\n
The court was earlier told that the girl lived with her parents, older brother and domestic helper in an HDB flat. The offender lived elsewhere with his grandmother.<\/p>\n
In 2022, he started tutoring the victim and her brother, and stayed over in their bedroom on weekends.<\/p>\n
On one occasion in 2022, he molested the victim as she was about to fall asleep on the lower deck of a bunk bed.<\/p>\n
She was frightened and shocked, and did not know how to react, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Intan Suhaily.<\/p>\n
The offender then exposed himself to her before he went back to sleep.<\/p>\n
On other occasions in 2023, when she was playing mobile games in the bedroom, he raped her and sexually assaulted her.<\/p>\n
Once, he entered the toilet while she was showering, watched her and took two photos of her naked, with her face clearly visible.<\/p>\n
The sexual offences against his sister came to an end when he stopped visiting her flat.<\/p>\n
On Jan 22, 2024, when he was 21 years old, he used his phone to record a video of a 23-year-old woman while she was showering at a hostel for university students.<\/p>\n
He was there to spend time with his girlfriend, who stayed in a different room at the same unit.<\/p>\n
When the victim started shouting, he immediately stopped recording and deleted the video.<\/p>\n
The police were called, and he was arrested the next day.<\/p>\n
After the man confessed to committing sexual offences against his half-sister, his father called the NAVH on Jan 25.<\/p>\n
The NAVH referred the matter to the Child Protective Service under the Ministry of Social and Family Development. A police report was made on Jan 26.<\/p>\n
On Nov 11, the man, who appeared in court dressed in a suit, was accompanied by his grandmother and a relative.<\/p>\n
His lawyer Sofia Bakhash told the court that he was pursuing university studies on a scholarship.<\/p>\n
She added that he had shown great remorse by coming clean to his father and pleading guilty.<\/p>\n
After he was sentenced, the lawyer sought a deferment so that he can spend time with his grandmother and help her with matters relating to the estate of a relative who recently died.<\/p>\n
Deputy Public Prosecutor Yee Jia Rong sought an increase in bail from $80,000 to $120,000.<\/p>\n
The man\u2019s grandmother, who is his bailor, agreed to continue standing bail for him.<\/p>\n
The judge increased bail to $120,000 and ordered the man to surrender at the State Courts on Dec 11.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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