SINGAPORE: A 54-year-old man who molested his stepdaughter upon multiple occasions had been on Monday (Jan 30) sentenced to one year and eight months’ jail.
The victim was initially reluctant to inform her mother what had happened, from fear that the older woman would danger her safety simply by confronting him. The victim also ended her boyfriend through reporting the matter towards the police.
The particular perpetrator, a Singaporean, pleaded guilty on Monday to 3 charges of outrage of modesty. An additional two similar charges were taken into consideration pertaining to sentencing.
Their sentence, which he began serving immediately, did not include caning as offenders above 50 years of age cannot be caned under Singapore’s laws.
None he nor the victim can be called due to a gag order to protect her identity.
At the time of the offences between 2016 and 2019, the particular victim was among 17 and 20 years old.
The court heard the victim’s mother married the offender in 2014. They started living together in his flat the next calendar year.
The sufferer got along properly with her new stepfather, and confided in him whenever she faced problems. They shared a “close father-daughter relationship”, Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Colin Ng told the courtroom.
One day within 2016, the set began teasing each other in the living room simply by poking at and slapping each other around the arm. The victim then ran in to her bedroom to cover from him, but he pushed the door open and moved into the room.
He or she proceeded to molest her by gnawing at her private component while they wrestled on her bed. When she screamed to get help, he immediately left the bedroom.
The victim’s mother went to check on the girl but the victim failed to say anything, not wanting the old woman to worry and quarrel with the girl husband.
2 yrs passed before the following incident, which happened while the victim’s then-boyfriend was at the girl house.
The offender acquired returned home and she went to the kitchen in order to greet him, just for him to try to kiss her on the lips.
The girl struggled and he pinned her to the flooring before molesting her. She screamed pertaining to help and told him to stop.
After he went to the toilet to bath, the victim remaining the flat with her boyfriend with no telling anyone what had happened.
It took three months for her to confide in her sweetheart, but she ceased him from facing her stepfather or even from reporting the matter to the police.
On Feb twenty, 2019, the sufferer was about to go away for school when her stepfather : who was sleeping in the living room – woke up and left a comment that her clothing was revealing. He then grabbed her breasts from behind.
She screamed on her mother who was in the master bedroom at the time. The particular offender immediately supported off.
When the victim’s mother checked on her, she held silent about the incident and left the flat.
Her mother sent the girl a text message soon after but she remained tight-lipped, merely uncovering that the offender “got close” to her. The girl was afraid the girl mother would confront him, DPP Ng told the courtroom.
Later that evening, she ultimately told her mother regarding being molested. Her mother lodged a police report two hours later.
In mitigation, the accused’s lawyer DURE Dhillon told the particular court that he has been currently divorced plus ashamed of his activities.
“He wishes to apologise to everyone concerned and begs for their forgiveness. He wished which he had exercised greater prudence and self-restraint and not succumbed to his animalistic desires, inch the defence advice added.
His last offence was in 1985 for stealing a bicycle, for which he was sentenced to probation.
Mr Dhillon added that his customer would not re-offend.
Those convicted of molestation can be jailed for up to three years, fined, caned or obtain any combination of the three.