50-year-old Mustapah Abdullah, was found guilty of making underaged boys perform an obscene act on him at a playground slide.
He had claimed trial to his charges and represented himself and was found guilty on 3 charges. The identities of the victims, aged 16 to 17 at the time, cannot be revealed due to a gag order.
The victims lived in the same neighbourhood as Mustapah and they got to know each other in 2017, and they were also aware of his past involvement with gangs.
The victims started avoiding him in 2018 after a rumour spread that he made one of their friends (identified as W2 in court documents) perform an explicit act on him.
W2 was allegedly assaulted by W2 twice in 2018 when he was 16 years old.
Mustapah also allegedly assaulted another victim (identified as W1 in court documents), on 5 occasions in 2017 when the boy was only 15.
Mustapa was angry with the rumour and arranged a meeting with the teenage boys on 17 October 2018 at night, in their neighbourhood.
He then attacked the victims, pulling, slapping and attempting to scratch one of the victim’s eye out, before kicking another victim on his back.
Mustapah then made each victim meet him alone at a playground slide one by one, where he then asked each of them to perform an explicit act on him at the top of the slide, to which they complied.
He is set to return to court in September for his sentencing.