SINGAPORE — Posing as the vice-principal of a girl’s junior college, a teenager got the girl to reveal her email password by claiming that a hacker had broken into the school’s Gmail account.
He also got the girl to send compromising photos to her email account to “entrap” the hacker.
On Wednesday (Dec 8), the 18-year-old Singaporean polytechnic student was sentenced to one-and-a-half years’ probation, which is usually offered to first-time offenders between 16 and 21 years old.
Probation does not result in a recorded criminal conviction and allows young offenders to continue with their education or employment while serving their sentences.
The teenager cannot be identified because he committed some of the crimes when he was not yet 18. The Children and Young Persons Act bans the publication of the identities of such young offenders.
His victim also cannot be named because of a court order to protect her identity.
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