A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty on 2 November to 10 counts of s*xual penetration of a minor as well as criminal intimidation.
He had targeted minors and blackmailed them into having s*x with him by threatening to leak their private information of n*de pictures.
Another 13 charges will be taking into consideration during sentencing.
The parties cannot be named as they were all underaged at the time of the offences.
The judge called for a probation suitability report and he is due to be sentenced later this month.
What happened?
The accused was 15 or 16 years-old at the time of the offence.
He began chatting with the victims on chat apps and asked them for n*des, to which he would then ask for more and if they refused, he would threaten to leak the pictures.
When he was in Secondary 4, he started dating a 13-year-old girl who went to his school.
In May 2018, he went to her house to study and have lunch, and the two then started kissing and ended up having s*xual intercourse.
They did so multiple times between May 2018 to November 2018 until the relationship was ended by the victim who said that the “s*x was making her disgusted”, particularly by a certain undisclosed s*xual act”.
She told him that she wanted to brea up but he then told her that she was selfish and threatened to leak her n*de pictures if she didn’t get back together with him.
The girl then begged him not to do it and took more explicit pictures of herself for him, where the accused then continued to harass her to get back together with him.
The victim then confided in her psychologist and father, and a police report was then made in December 2018.
The second victim was a Secondary 2 girl he met on the app in April 2019.
The girl rejected his requests for her n*de pictures, to which he sent her a screenshot of her saying “touching herself felt comfortable”, threatening to send it to her mother.
The victim then eventually gave in.
The accused then started asking the victim to have s*x with him by threatening to lea her n*de pictures.
The girl rejected his requests numerous times, explaining that she wanted her first time to be with someone she loves.
The accused then told her that they could do it at HDB staircases, where there were no cameras.
He also told her that if she called the police, her mother would find out.
The crimes were not known by anyone until the police uncovered it by investigating the other offences.
The third victim was a Secondary 4 girl whom the accused asked for n*de photos and s*x.
The girl sent him the images but was busy with her exams so she didn’t have time to reply him.
The accused the got “paranoid and upset”, to which the girl offered to talk to him on the phone to cheer him up.
He then asked to video call so he could perform a s*x act.
The accused the demanded a photo of her breasts with her face inside after the victim forgot to reply him because she was studying.
He then threatened to leak the picture and her details, and the girl eventually gave in due to being scared.
The accused then asked her for more and introduced some “new rules” for her, blackmailing her once again.
The girl then eventually made a police report and the accused then uploaded the photos publicly on Instagram.
He was then arrested in July 2019.