Fadhillah Kassim, a 65-year-old taxi driver, was fined $8,000 after pleading guilty to one count of sexual communications with a minor.
He had sent sexual messages to an 11-year-old girl on a chat application.
What happened?
He downloaded a chat app sometime in February/March last year to talk to females while he waited for passengers in the taxi queue.
He would make small talk with the girls at first and then ask them sexually related stuffs.
He said that he would act young and not reveal his actual age, reasoning that the girls would try to act young by saying that they were younger than they really are.
An 11-year-old girl (the victim) was on YouTube when she saw an ad for the app, she then downloaded the app because she was curious.
She then got acquainted with Fadhillah on the chat app about a few weeks after.
Fadhillah said that he asked the victim sexual questions because he felt the conversation had gotten “boring”.
He asked her: “How old are you actually, darling?”
To which the 11-year-old girl lied that she was 15.
The man then said “that is sweet” and added that he “loves” it, asking her to let him “take care of you” and told her what he would do to her for $100.
He then asked the girl if she was a virgin.
The victim’s sister saw the chat and their father was informed about it, they took a screenshot of the convo and deleted the application.
They then make a police report.
Fadhillah realised that the victim didn’t respond to his messaged, he then deleted the conversation he had with her, but the police still managed to track him down.
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