ANN/THE STRAITS TIMES – A 64-year-old man in Singapore was sentenced to three weeks’ jail yesterday to one count of having sexual communication with a minor below 16 years old.
The man, whose cannot be named to protect the victim’s identity, was a secondary school teacher and got to know one of his students in 2020, while the student was in Secondary 1.
They shared a teacher-student relationship.
The man started text messaging the boy in late 2022. In November that year, the teacher sent the teenager a message about a sex toy and how it could be used.
Feeling sexually exploited, the 15-year-old alerted police in February 2023.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Lee Da Zhuan told the court: “The victim was alarmed by the accused’s messages and felt sexually exploited.”
Shortly after midnight on January 28, 2023, the man sent another sexually explicit text message to the boy, who alerted the police 10 days later.
Yesterday, DPP Lee asked for the man to be sentenced to at least a month in jail, adding: “Instead of caring for the victim as a student, the accused made use of his position as a teacher to procure sexual conversations with the student.
“The accused acted exactly the opposite of his responsibility towards the victim as his teacher by taking advantage of the victim, sexually texting the victim on multiple occasions.”
