A 64-year-old man pleaded guilty on 26 July to 4 counts of sexual penetration of a minor under 14.
11 other similar charges will be taken into consideration during sentencing.
The victims and accused cannot be named due to a gag order.
What happened?
The man was working as a dishwasher and stayed alone at a HDB flat at the time.
The 13-year-old victims were staying in the same block as the man, and they got to know him through their father.
The man would meet the victims’ parents and ask for cigarettes.
The boy would run into the man occasionally at a nearby coffeeshop and ask him for cigarettes.
The man then eventually invited him to his flat to chat, the boy went on 2 occasions and asked him for cigarettes.
The boy then visited the man’s home some time before June 2016 for the third time and the man then played p*rnography on his laptop for the boy to watch.
The boy asked for cigarettes and the two then smoked together while watching p*rn, which was showing a man performing a sexual act on another man.
The man asked the boy if he could do the same to him and the boy complied.
The boy then felt disgusted but took $20 and a few ciggs from the man before leaving.
In June/July 2016, the boy wanted cigarettes and went to the man’s flat, knowing that the man would give him money and cigarettes for the sexual acts.
Targeted the boy’s 13-year-old sister
The man then began asking the boy’s sister for similar acts.
In May 2017, the girl was with a friend at a void deck when she chanced upon the man.
She asked him for cigarettes because she remembered her brother told her that the man had give him some.
The man said he didn’t have any on him and asked her to go to his flat later.
The girl’s friend was waiting at the staircase as she went up, with the offender telling her that if she wanted cigarettes she cannot bring a friend.
The girl then went to the man’s flat alone a few days later, who asked her to take off her shirt before he passed her a cigarette.
The girl refused in shock but the man told her that it would only be for a while.
The girl then did as she was told and the man molested her, he then asked her to perform a sex act on him, which she did.
The man then gave her $40 and told her not to tell anyone what happened.
A few days later the two met again at a void deck and he invited her to his house for cigarettes, where they smoked and the girl performed a sex act on him upon his request.
He then told her that he had no money that day but would give her some the next time he saw her.
She was given a few sticks of cigarettes and a few days later took $50 from him.
The crimes were revealed in 2 November 2019 when she lodged a police report claiming that her father had raped her.
The offences were uncovered during ensuing investigation and the officer then lodged a police report 4 days later.