By Khushwant Singh
UNDER the pretext of teaching her about sex so she would not be
cheated by men in the future, an operations supervisor had sex with
his girlfriend's daughter and gave her a sexually transmitted
disease.
Only after the victim, then aged 14, attended sex education
classes last year and found out about sex, masturbation and
condoms, did she realise that what he did to her was wrong.
She told her mother and on Tuesday, the 43-year-old man was
sentenced to a total of 26 years in jail and 24 strokes of the cane
in the High Court.
He had pleaded guilty to raping her on four occasions. Seven
other similar offences were taken into consideration by Justice
Steven Chong.
The man cannot be named to protect the victim's identity.
The court heard that the bachelor was in a relationship with the
girl's mother. The 37-year-old divorcee then moved into his flat
with her daughter and son in 2005.
As she was afraid of the dark, she would sleep with the man and
her mother. Sometime after she turned 12 in 2007, he touched her
private parts as she lay between him and her mother.
When they were both alone in the flat some months later, he
tried to have sex with the primary six student but stopped when she
complained of pain.
She told police she did not tell anyone then because she did not
know what he did was wrong. The next time in the same year, he went
all the way wearing a condom.
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