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SINGAPORE: A woman who was accused of having consensual sex with her own father has been given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal in a district court Tuesday.
No reasons were given for the discharge.
The 23-year-old management trainee is the first woman to be charged with incest in Singapore.
The slim bespectacled woman who was represented by lawyer S.S. Dhillon looked calm throughout the hearing.
She was alleged to have had sex with her father, who's a plumber, in a flat at around 11.30pm in April 2008.
The father was supposed to have been charged in March but he failed to turn up in court.
A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
Channel NewsAsia understands that the 46-year-old man is still at large and investigations are ongoing.
The two parties cannot be named due to a court order.
If convicted of incest, the woman could have been jailed up to five years.
-CNA/wk
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