31-year-old Lee Lai Soon, a private-hire car driver, pleaded guilty to one count of having commercial intercourse with a minor and was sentenced on 9 October to 9 weeks imprisonment.
He had paid a 15-year-old girl to engage in intercourse with him, according to Channel NewsAsia.
What happened?
Back in 2022, the 15-year-old girl reached out to an unnamed agent for help because she needed money for herself and her newborn baby.
The girl asked the agent if he had any high-paying jobs available, to which the agent asked her if she was keen on providing obscene services to clients.
The price for intercourse would cost $500, of which the girl would keep $400 and the agent would take the remaining $100 as commission. However, if the girl wanted to keep the $100 commission for herself, then she would have to sleep with him.
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Meanwhile, Lee had been part of a group on Telegram that advertised obscene services since around August 2022, and he chanced upon an advertisement promoting services by “xiao meimei”.
He reached out to the agent and requested to look at photos as well as the price, and he was quoted $250, and sometime in September 2022, he booked the girl.
Lee then drove to pick up the girl and paid her $250, and once she was in his bedroom, he told her than he wanted to have intercourse with her, which would be another $300, which he would pay later.
Lee then had intercourse with the girl without asking for her age.
After sleeping with him, the girl asked him for the $300 that was due and he then drove the girl to an ATM in the vicinity to withdraw the money before passing it to her.
He then drove her back to where he picked her up.
Police raid
Lee was subsequently identified and arrested by the police following their investigations into a case of remote communication for intercourse, and his house was raided by the police in May earlier this year.
He was sentenced to 9 weeks imprisonment yesterday (9 October), but has been granted a week of deferment to settle his work matters before reporting to start his prison sentence.