Man gets 13 years’ jail for sexually abusing daughter
SINGAPORE — He was her biological father and she was only 12 to 13 years old at the time, but that did not stop a deliveryman from sexually abusing his daughter numerous times.
The 47-year-old was yesterday sentenced to 13 years’ jail and 12 strokes of the cane for a count of inserting his finger into her vagina without her consent, and another of committing an obscene act by rubbing her vagina.
A third charge of grabbing and squeezing the victim’s breasts was taken into consideration in sentencing. He cannot be named to protect his daughter’s identity.
The girl, who turns 16 this year, is currently living in a children’s welfare home and was observed engaging in self-cutting behaviour.
Court documents show that she told an Institute of Mental Health expert that she felt tired and heartbroken that her “beloved” father had sexually assaulted her. She confided in a social worker during her school hours after one of the offences, as she “could not take it anymore”, the court heard. She was also worried that her father would start sexually abusing her younger sister. She had not confided in anyone earlier as she felt nobody would believe her.
The girl’s mother often travelled to Malaysia. In 2012, the father gave the girl a massage after she complained that her body was aching. After telling her to take off her clothes, he unhooked her bra, squeezed her breasts and put his finger into her vagina. Her sister and mother were not in the room at the time.
The second offence occurred in February 2013.
The girl was in bed when she felt her father reach under her skirt and rub her vagina.
High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang sentenced the man, who pleaded guilty, to 12 years’ jail and 12 strokes of the cane for the offence of sexual assault by penetration without the victim’s consent, and a year’s jail for rubbing his daughter’s vagina.
Earlier yesterday, Justice Tay ordered 14 years’ jail and 14 strokes of the cane for another sex offender who had raped a 13-year-old girl.
Terence Ng Kean Meng, 44, first noticed his victim, a Secondary 1 student, loitering around his makeshift cobbler stall near Commonwealth MRT in October 2013. He approached her and she told him she was afraid to go home as she had run away.
He accompanied the girl home and met her mother. He even offered to be her godfather and her parents agreed.
The divorcee soon became attracted to her and took her to his flat on Oct 29, 2013. Ng rubbed ointment on the girl after she complained about feeling unwell. He asked her if she wanted to have sex and she agreed. They then went to the toilet and he inserted his finger into her vagina. A few days later, they had sex in his flat.
The offences came to light after the girl’s mother died from an illness weeks after the incidents and she confided in someone at her school. She later made a police report and Ng was arrested in February last year.
Ng pleaded guilty and Justice Tay sentenced him to 13 years’ jail and 12 strokes of the cane for statutory rape, and one year’s jail and two strokes of the cane for penetrating her with his finger.
Two other charges were taken into consideration, including one of statutory rape that took place in an ancestral temple on Commonwealth Lane.
