Cop jailed, career over because of oral sex
A POLICE sergeant has been jailed for two years and faces the sack
after he was found guilty of having oral sex with a
16-year-old.
She was above the age of consent and agreed to perform the act, but
Annis Abdullah, 27, of the Police Coast Guard, landed in court
because oral sex is against the law.
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The girl made a police report after the incident.
The court heard that they got to know each other through an
Internet chatroom in March last year, met and kept in touch.
On April 23 last year, she met him at the Jurong Entertainment
Centre and he drove her to Chinese Garden Road where they engaged
in heavy petting in the car.
When he asked if she wanted to have sex, she said no. She agreed to
perform oral sex on him, but a week later she made a police
report.
Lawyer Ismail Hamid pleaded for leniency, saying Annis did not
force the teenager to perform oral sex.
He was a first-time offender, the sole breadwinner for his family
and engaged to be married.
But Deputy Public Prosecutor Tan Wee Soon told the court earlier
that as a law enforcer, Annis should have known better than to
'engage in carnal intercourse against the order of nature' with the
girl.
District judge Wong Keen Onn agreed, and jailed him for two years
yesterday.
He told Annis that as a serving police officer, he should have
known what was right and wrong and his behaviour ought to have been
exemplary.
A police spokesman said last night: 'We have no place for
ill-disciplined officers. We are taking disciplinary action with
the view to terminating the services of the errant officer.'
Lawyers contacted yesterday said it was not common for cases of
consensual oral sex to land up in court.
But veteran criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan explained: 'The act by
itself is an offence. It is not a question of consent or no
consent. Even between consenting people, it is an offence.'
Technically, he said, a woman who performs the act can also be
charged with helping to commit a crime, but he was not aware of any
such case.
Criminal lawyer Sarbrinder Singh said: 'Cases of oral sex being
brought to court are not common, simply because the nature of the
act is such that it is almost always consensual.'
The maximum punishment for the offence is life
imprisonment.
