Published on Jun 6, 2012
A former grassroots leader was sentenced to 18 months' jail on
Tuesday for molesting a five-year-old boy after a basketball
game.
Kelvin Chan Kum Poh, 31, was a volunteer committee member at the
Bishan East Community Sports Centre and Youth Executive Club when
he met the boy at a game arcade in Causeway Point on Oct 1, 2010,
the court heard.
Chan told the boy he wanted to take him out for a basketball game.
The boy then took Chan to meet his 62-year-old grandmother, who
agreed to let him do so after Chan showed her his grassroots
leader's card.
At about 2pm that day, Chan took the boy to Block 113, Bishan
Street 11 for a basketball clinic.
