A 24-YEAR-OLD polytechnic student was on Friday sentenced to 13
years' jail and 15 strokes of the cane for raping a 13-year-old
secondary school student.
Wang Jianbin had befriended the girl in October 2008 after
coming across her email address in the 'making friends' column of a
teenage magazine. They started to communicate via text mesages and
telephone calls.
But he started asking her sexual questions and sent her sexually
explicit text messages. In December 2009, he asked to meet at her
home.
The girl asked two male friends, 17 and 18, to hide in her
mother's room and to call for help if she could not handle
Wang.
When Wang arrived, the girl brought him to her room as he
demanded. She did so because she thought he would not dare to do
anything to her because her brother was having a lesson with his
piano teacher in the living room. But inside, Wang molested
her.
One of the girl's male friends came into the room and struggled
with Wang but he made the girl tell the friend to leave. Both
teenage boys then went to seek help from a nearby fire post, in
their absence, Wang raped the girl. The two teenage boys then
returned with several civil defence officers. The police arrived
shortly after and arrested Wang.
-- ST
