SINGAPORE: A man was sentenced to one-and-a-half years ‘ jail on Monday ( Feb 10 ) for paying a 16-year-old” sugar baby” for sex.
After a test, Mario Antonio Di Dier, a 42-year-old Singaporean, was previously convicted on five works of paying the target for gender between Dec 2, 2021 and Apr 13, 2022.
In Singapore, it is illegal to engage in commercial sex with a small under the age of 18, but the legal age of consent for gender is 16 years old.
Di Dier and the woman met in November 2021 via the Sugarbook site, a dating app connecting” sugar mommies” and” sugar children”.
The maximum time to apply Sugarbook, according to the site, is 18.
The victim claimed that during their first meeting on December 2, 2021, she received S$ 300 ( US$ 223 ) for performing a sexual act on Di Dier. She was paid S$ 300 for physical works on four subsequent events.
The victim, who claimed she had sexual sex with Di Dier and paid her afterward, alerted the authorities to the situation.
The target claimed to have informed the police that she had discovered that a colleague of the same time had met Di Dier and that he had given her cash after she had made the report.
” Di Dier was now ok with meeting another 17-year-old Sugarbook girl despite originally saying he was afraid to meet her and had sex with her because she was underage. She felt guilty about this”, the attorney said.
The target informed her physician about this.
The prosecutor continued,” Her psychiatrist was the one who persuaded her to make a police report on the grounds that ( Di Dier ) would undoubtedly be okay with meeting other girls who are under 18 and that she should put a stop to it by making a police report.”
At a prior hearing, the judge said that the burden was on the older people to “do appropriate” and not take advantage of the target for intimate gratification, even if the victim offered physical services.
In this case, Di Dier had seen markings on the woman’s figure that indicated self-harm, and so, even more so should not have taken advantage of her risk, the prosecutor said.
Di Dier could have been jailed for up to seven times, fined, or both for each cost of having business intercourse with a small under the age of 18.