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Serial sex offender raped 69-year-old, attacked 2 students (2006)
WHEN he was 16, Sashi Kumar Pubalasingam was caught molesting his female schoolmates and had to go through a tough reformative regime for his crime.
But just six months after being released from the Reformative Training Centre in January 2004, Sashi Kumar, then 22, beat up and raped a 69-year-old widow.
Eight months later, in March last year, he sexually attacked two students, aged 18 and 20, in the space of 24 hours.
Yesterday, the High Court packed off the serial sex offender, now 23, to jail for 20 years, where he will be given the maximum 24 strokes of the cane.
Justice Kan Ting Chiu noted that Sashi Kumar preyed on victims who were alone and defenceless, assaulting them into submission.
The punishment, he said, was to ensure that he would not repeat his offences 'for some time to come'.
'I hope that when you are locked up for the good of society, that you reflect on the shameful way you have led your life and that somehow, you will make an effort to change your ways,' the judge added.
All three women, who were attacked in the Clementi area where he lived, suffered bruises and cuts as he rained punches on them, even physically dragging them along the ground towards secluded spots.
The 69-year-old woman, who was walking home from Clementi bus interchange on July 12 in 2004, tried to run when she saw him trailing her but was waylaid. She fell and was dragged along a footpath to an unused railway track beneath the Clementi Avenue 6 flyover.
He stripped her, made her perform oral sex on him and raped her. She lodged a police report that night.
On March 10 last year, he set upon an 18-year-old foreign student as she walked along a footpath talking to her father on her mobile phone.
He grabbed her Nokia phone and then tried to rip her panties off. In the middle of the struggle, he suddenly gave up and ran off with the phone. Her roommate called the police when she reached home.
The next morning, a 20-year-old student was not so fortunate. Walking back to school after completing a 2.4km run as part of her physical education class, she was waylaid while walking along a footpath near the Ulu Pandan Park Connector.
She was dragged into some bushes and punched when she started to scream. She was then ordered to strip. The crying young woman told him she was a virgin. Sashi Kumar sodomised her twice.
He was arrested near his flat on April 14 last year.
The tall, sturdy-looking man confessed to rape, robbery, abduction and unnatural sex.
His lawyer said Sashi Kumar did not want him to put forward a case for more lenient treatment. He simply noted that his client had pleaded guilty, had cooperated with the police and was a young offender.
Said Deputy Public Prosecutor Christopher Ong: 'No woman would be safe from the accused when he is 'in the mood' to carry out his depraved attacks.'
The three women had had their peaceful, everyday routines shattered by his terrifying actions.
'A simple walk home should never be an occasion for fear or trepidation,' he said.
Credits The Straits Times
Advisory: He is due to be released soon
Joseph Tan
Executive Director
Crime Library (Singapore)
Crime Library Singapore
1 hr
Serial sex offender raped 69-year-old, attacked 2 students (2006)
WHEN he was 16, Sashi Kumar Pubalasingam was caught molesting his female schoolmates and had to go through a tough reformative regime for his crime.
But just six months after being released from the Reformative Training Centre in January 2004, Sashi Kumar, then 22, beat up and raped a 69-year-old widow.
Eight months later, in March last year, he sexually attacked two students, aged 18 and 20, in the space of 24 hours.
Yesterday, the High Court packed off the serial sex offender, now 23, to jail for 20 years, where he will be given the maximum 24 strokes of the cane.
Justice Kan Ting Chiu noted that Sashi Kumar preyed on victims who were alone and defenceless, assaulting them into submission.
The punishment, he said, was to ensure that he would not repeat his offences 'for some time to come'.
'I hope that when you are locked up for the good of society, that you reflect on the shameful way you have led your life and that somehow, you will make an effort to change your ways,' the judge added.
All three women, who were attacked in the Clementi area where he lived, suffered bruises and cuts as he rained punches on them, even physically dragging them along the ground towards secluded spots.
The 69-year-old woman, who was walking home from Clementi bus interchange on July 12 in 2004, tried to run when she saw him trailing her but was waylaid. She fell and was dragged along a footpath to an unused railway track beneath the Clementi Avenue 6 flyover.
He stripped her, made her perform oral sex on him and raped her. She lodged a police report that night.
On March 10 last year, he set upon an 18-year-old foreign student as she walked along a footpath talking to her father on her mobile phone.
He grabbed her Nokia phone and then tried to rip her panties off. In the middle of the struggle, he suddenly gave up and ran off with the phone. Her roommate called the police when she reached home.
The next morning, a 20-year-old student was not so fortunate. Walking back to school after completing a 2.4km run as part of her physical education class, she was waylaid while walking along a footpath near the Ulu Pandan Park Connector.
She was dragged into some bushes and punched when she started to scream. She was then ordered to strip. The crying young woman told him she was a virgin. Sashi Kumar sodomised her twice.
He was arrested near his flat on April 14 last year.
The tall, sturdy-looking man confessed to rape, robbery, abduction and unnatural sex.
His lawyer said Sashi Kumar did not want him to put forward a case for more lenient treatment. He simply noted that his client had pleaded guilty, had cooperated with the police and was a young offender.
Said Deputy Public Prosecutor Christopher Ong: 'No woman would be safe from the accused when he is 'in the mood' to carry out his depraved attacks.'
The three women had had their peaceful, everyday routines shattered by his terrifying actions.
'A simple walk home should never be an occasion for fear or trepidation,' he said.
Credits The Straits Times
Advisory: He is due to be released soon
Joseph Tan
Executive Director
Crime Library (Singapore)
