SINGAPORE: A woman who was six years old started taking lessons from a drum instructor.  , However, the 32-year-old gentleman started preying on the woman after Justin Lu Zhao En was hired to teach her in the protection of her own apartment.  ,
The guy went to the kid’s room and molested her there under the pretense of seeing her research.
He then started texting her messages that were sexually explicit, actually creating a secret code to let her know when someone was outside. Additionally, the two engaged in sexual activity in a Facetime video talk.
On Tuesday, December 5, Lu admitted guilt to two matters of molesting a child under the age of 14, one matter of showing an offensive image at her, and two costs of procuring the payment of an indecent act from he. He was sentenced to six strokes of the wood.  ,
His imprisonment was also taken into consideration for three additional similar costs and one cost of obstructing justice.  ,
Due to a joke buy protecting her personality, the victim’s identity may be revealed.  ,
She reportedly started taking disc classes at a music studio andnbsp when she was six years old, according to the court. The person accused was her teacher.  ,
She was given to other teachers to continue these classes until he left the audio workshop in 2018.  ,
Eventually, the defendant’s father hired the accused, who was then a self-employed drum teacher, to teach his daughter privately because she preferred him.  ,
Beginning in 2019, the accused started holding regular roller training in the victim’s home living room. An adult, such as the victim’s parents or the local helper, may be present during the lessons.  ,
Even though nothing happened at first, the accused started abusing the 11-year-old child in 2021.  ,
After lessons on February 23, 2021, the accused requested to see the defendant’s research, and the two went to her home. The person sexually assaulted her as they sat on chair next to one another, shocking the young woman. She kept the incident a secret from everyone because she did n’t want to think about it.  ,
Additionally, they texted about having sex. In order to determine whether someone was nearby the child when they did so, Lu  created a secret password. Three symbols in the colors green, orange, and dark were used in this.  ,
According to court documents, the red icon meant” I do not want to speak about sexual issues right now,” followed by the orange and green, which indicated that there was someone present and not to discuss intimate topics.
The accused kept pestering the victim for skinny pictures and videos, so she frequently used the dark icon.  ,
The man exposed himself to the victim during a Facebook video call between February and March 2021, ordering her to engage in immoral behavior.  ,
After a drum lessons on March 2, 2021, the man assaulted the girl once more. She complied when he requested nude pictures and videos from her a few days afterwards. He asked her to engage in sexual activity during the same talk.
On March 6, 2021, her parents filed a police report after learning of the offenses.  ,
According to his charge sheet, the accused called the victim via WhatsApp in May 2022 and requested that she cut her case against him and remove her sexual abuse accusation.  ,
The trial claimed in its imprisonment submissions that the accused had abused the trust relationship by using it for physical gratification.  ,
According to Deputy Public Prosecutor Chan Yi Cheng, the number of costs also indicated the victim’s aggravated conditions and ongoing misuse.
Regarding the case, District Judge Brenda Chua noted that Wayne Ong, the accused’s attorney, had stated in mitigation that, despite having a duty to the target, his power was limited.  ,
It’s not at all poor, the judge declared.  ,
She noted that the accused had essentially been the defendant’s tutor or instructor for six decades.  ,
She also believed that he had concealed anything by using symbols as a key code.  ,