Teacher jailed for molesting and attacking girl

[Balrog]

Apr 8, 2011

Man jailed for molesting and attacking girl

By Elena Chong

A MAN who bashed up and molested his then-girlfriend's younger sister was jailed for 18 months on Friday.

The 29-year-old teacher, who cannot be named as there is a gag order, had admitted to repeatedly punching the 19-year-old girl all over and causing her to lose consciousness and being unable to follow her ordinary pursuits for 22 days.

He also admitted to lifting up her T-shirt exposing her chest area, removing her shorts and underwear to expose her lower body and touching her thighs. A third charge of insulting her modesty by filming her naked lower body with his mobile was taken into consideration. The court heard that the accused had been staying at the victim's home for the past two years.

He was at the flat at about noon on May 24 2010 having taken a can and bottle of beer when he tried to talk to the victim, who was asleep and ignored him. In anger, he started to punch her all over. She tried to get up and struggled but he punched and kicked her on her upper thigh.

When she fell on the floor unconscious, he lifted up her T-shirt, removed his bermudas to expose himself, removed her shorts and underwear and touched her thighs and legs. He sat and stared at her exposed lower body and left the room after a while.

The victim's father happened to come home and when he found her lying on the floor, he thought she had been raped and called the police.

The victim was warded in the high dependency ward for multiple bruises, abrasions and scratch marks as well as bleeding in the eyes and ears. She was also given 22 days of hospitalisation leave.

 

[Pang De]

Ex-teacher jailed for assault, molest
By Shaffiq Alkhatib | Posted: 08 April 2011 1538 hrs

SINGAPORE: A former teacher was jailed on Friday for 18 months for assaulting and molesting his girlfriend's sister on May 24 last year.

He is not named to protect the victim's identity.

The 29-year-old man used to stay at his girlfriend's family flat where he shared a room with the woman and her younger sibling.

However, the younger girl who did not like having him in her home hardly spoke to each other.

According to Deputy Public Prosecutor Eunice Chong, the man and the girl who was then 19-years-old, were at home.

The man who had been drinking some beer tried to speak to the girl who was asleep in her bedroom.

She ignored him when he tried to wake her up.

Enraged, the man pummelled the girl repeatedly with his fists and kicked her on the upper thigh until she fell unconscious onto the floor.

He then undressed her, touching her thighs and legs while he stripped off her underwear and shorts.

DPP Chong said he then used his mobile phone to film the unconscious girl's body.

Calling it a "vicious" and an "unprovoked" attack, the prosecution said the girl was bleeding from both ears and had multiple bleeding spots in her eyes after the assault.

The young girl also suffered numerous bruises, abrasions as well as scratch marks all over her body and had to be warded for eight days at the National University Hospital.

DDP Chong said the girl's father came home shortly after the attack only to find his daughter lying battered on the floor.

The father informed the authorities and officers arrived to arrest her attacker.

Defence counsel Stuart Palmer told Community Court Judge Ng Peng Hong that his client was suffering from major depressive disorder that could have affected his self control.

The lawyer also highlighted that his client had stayed at his girlfriend's flat for more than two years without incident.

The man had moved out of his family's flat after finding out he was an adopted child, said Mr Palmer.

The prosecution, however, stressed that the 19-year-old was attacked in the sanctity of her own home.

"The sexual slant to the assault" made the man's actions "all the more reprehensible", said DPP Chong.

-CNA/wk/sf