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Aug 5, 2009
Duo jailed for obscene act <!--10 min-->
<!-- headline one : start --> <!-- headline one : end --> <!-- Author --> <!-- show image if available --> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr></tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold">By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
</td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--> TWO men who committed an obscene act on a 15-year-old boy on separate occasions were each jailed three months on Wednesday. Victor Ng Yong You, 25, then a property agent, and Thomas Song Choong Chen, 36, a supervisor, had earlier pleaded guilty to their respective offences last month. They are the second and third persons to be dealt with in court.
Quek Hock Sing, 42, has since been dealt with for a similar offence against the teenager. A district court heard that the victim, now 17, had been chatting with people on social networking websites since he was in Primary 3. In 2004, he found out about an online chatroom popular with homosexual men, and started chatting with strangers. In December 2006, desperate for money, he started posting messages on the site, 'seeking paid fun'. He claimed he was 16 but would give his real age when he met or spoke to the other party on the phone.
In January 2007, the victim chatted with Ng online and asked if he could give him a lift to Wisma Atria to collect his phone. The victim offered his sexual service in exchange for Ng's help. After fetching the boy, Ng drove to an underground carpark in Bukit Merah where he committed the obscene act on the victim. In Song's case, the court heard that he went to the victim's flat around early 2007 and paid him $50 for his sexual services.
The victim's mother made a police report in May 2007 after someone called and told her about her son's activities over the Internet.
Ng and Song could each have been fined up to $5,000 and/or jailed for up to two years for the offence under the Children and Young Persons Act.
The cases against two others are pending while the court had called for a pre-sentence report on Muhammad Hafashah Mohd Aslam, 21, who admitted to having the victim perform oral sex on him on Aug 26.
Aug 5, 2009
Duo jailed for obscene act <!--10 min-->
<!-- headline one : start --> <!-- headline one : end --> <!-- Author --> <!-- show image if available --> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr></tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold">By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
</td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--> TWO men who committed an obscene act on a 15-year-old boy on separate occasions were each jailed three months on Wednesday. Victor Ng Yong You, 25, then a property agent, and Thomas Song Choong Chen, 36, a supervisor, had earlier pleaded guilty to their respective offences last month. They are the second and third persons to be dealt with in court.
Quek Hock Sing, 42, has since been dealt with for a similar offence against the teenager. A district court heard that the victim, now 17, had been chatting with people on social networking websites since he was in Primary 3. In 2004, he found out about an online chatroom popular with homosexual men, and started chatting with strangers. In December 2006, desperate for money, he started posting messages on the site, 'seeking paid fun'. He claimed he was 16 but would give his real age when he met or spoke to the other party on the phone.
In January 2007, the victim chatted with Ng online and asked if he could give him a lift to Wisma Atria to collect his phone. The victim offered his sexual service in exchange for Ng's help. After fetching the boy, Ng drove to an underground carpark in Bukit Merah where he committed the obscene act on the victim. In Song's case, the court heard that he went to the victim's flat around early 2007 and paid him $50 for his sexual services.
The victim's mother made a police report in May 2007 after someone called and told her about her son's activities over the Internet.
Ng and Song could each have been fined up to $5,000 and/or jailed for up to two years for the offence under the Children and Young Persons Act.
The cases against two others are pending while the court had called for a pre-sentence report on Muhammad Hafashah Mohd Aslam, 21, who admitted to having the victim perform oral sex on him on Aug 26.
