SOON after surfing the Internet for pornographic websites on
homosexuality, a 14-year-old boy decided to try out such acts on
his schoolmates and a classmate.
The accused, who is now 16, cannot be named to protect the
identities of his victims, two of whom are mildly retarded.
The teenager himself has an IQ of 84, which puts him at the low
end of the average range of intelligence.
Yesterday, the burly student pleaded guilty to two charges of
having anal sex with a 15-year-old and a 14-year-old schoolmate at
multi-storey carparks in Bukit Panjang in March and October 2008
respectively.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Bhajanvir Singh told Community Court
Judge Ng Peng Hong that the accused started to develop thoughts of
getting sexually intimate with males after surfing the pornographic
websites in 2007.
He propositioned the first victim, but was declined. He
persisted, and the victim finally agreed about nine months later,
when the accused threatened to end their friendship if he did not
agree to perform a lewd act with him.
-- ST
