A FORMER retail assistant who persuaded underage girls to have
sex with him should be jailed for a long time because he continues
to be a danger to young and vulnerable victims, the High Court
heard on Friday.
Agreeing, Justice Kan Ting Chiu sentenced Shaiful Feroz Rahman
to 13 years in jail and six strokes of the cane for the statutory
rape of a 13-year-old and on two counts of having carnal
connections with a 14-year-old.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Edmund Lam said 27-year-old Shaiful was
'an Internet sex predator who targeted underage victims to satisfy
his lustful appetite'.
The prosecutor also said that a psychiatric report found Shaiful
was very likely to re-offend.
In June 2006, he had been jailed two months for having carnal
connections with an underage girl. Upon his release, he was back to
trawling the www.alamak.com chatroom on the Internet, befriending
girls as young as 13.
He would get their cellphone numbers and send them text messages
before convincing them to meet him.
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