Nick Chong Seng Cheong, 24-years-old, was jailed 2 years and 10 months after pleading guilding to 3 counts of sexual penetration of a minor and one count of possessing obscene films, another 7 charges were taken into consideration.
Chong has entered into a friends with benefits arrangement with a 13-year-old girl and engaged in criminal sex acts with her for more than a year.
He was 21 to 22 years old at the time and he met the first on a chat application,where they had sexual chats.
They would also exchange obscene photos of themselves.
Chong asked the girl to be “friends with benefits”, which the girl agreed, providing she was paid.
Chong was already aware that the girl was $13 by this time, and the two would then meet for sexual activities at a handicapped toilet at a Tampines shopping mall.
He would then pay her between $30 to $50 for each session.
To get the girl into the hotel that required her to show her identity card and reveal her age, chong would go to the hotel first and pick her up from the lobby, pretending that she was his sister.
The girl lodged a police report on 12 March 2019, saying that she had sex with several men, Chong was then charged following investigations.