53-year-old Seyad Sulaiman Maideen Pillai a repeat child molester is back to face the law after molesting two boys just after a year of his release.
Seyad received seven-year preventive detention (PD) sentence on 26/12/2019.
What is PD?
Preventive Detention is for repeat offenders that are over the age of 30 years old and with no chance of sentence reduction, in other word keep him lock up to prevent further crime.
His crimes against children went way back and he started his first corrective training in back in 1999. He has spent years in jail and was given the rotan punishment before. He was convicted again in 2012 but was released from prison in March last year.
How did it happen?
The incident happened in May, Seyad worked as a cleaner at Far East Plaza, he was on his way onboard a public bus at around 7.30 am. A boy boarded the bus and knew who Seyad is as he had interacted with Seyad before. Court documents did not indicate if he was friends with the boy.
Seyed signalled the boy who just boarded the bus to sit beside him and Seyad gave the boy $2 for unknown reasons.
He then begun to molest the boy’s thigh also put his hand around the shoulders of the boy. Before Seyad steps down from the bus, he gave the boy a “flying kiss”.
On June 11, a different boy boarded the same bus service, again he signaled the the boy to come over and began molesting the boy’s thighs
The child resisted and tried to leave Seyad.
The boy informed his sister and the parents found out about the incident. A police report was made by the boy’s father.