Businessman charged with having commercial sex with underage escort
POSTED: 24 Jun 2013 12:50 PM
File photo: The Subordinate Courts in Singapore. (photo: Francine Lim, channelnewsasia.com)
SINGAPORE: A businessman has been charged with having commercial sex with an underage escort, in the latest online vice scandal to hit Singapore.
Forty-three-year-old Ng Kheng Siang allegedly paid the 16-year-old S$330 for her services in February this year.
Under the law, it is an offence to have commercial sex with someone under 18 years of age.
Ng is the eleventh person to be charged with this offence involving the same girl.
Last week, 10 men were charged in court with similar offences.
Of them, three pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 12 weeks' jail each.
- CNA/fa
