After paying a 17-year-old woman for sexual providers, a person discovered himself being threatened by the woman and her good friend to pay them for his or her silence, or they might go to the police.
He supplied to pay just a few thousand {dollars} however ended up paying S$50,000 after negotiations.
A month later, he went to the police to report being “scammed”.
One other 12 months later, on Apr. 12, 2024, the person, now 35 years previous, was sentenced to jail for 9 weeks for paying a minor for sexual providers.
Below Singapore legislation, it’s a crime to pay for sexual providers from minors under the age of 18 — whether or not in Singapore or outdoors of Singapore.
Man had given the woman $600 in alternate for sexual providers
In Feb. 2023, the person organized for sexual providers by a 3rd social gathering in a Telegram chat group.
He then met the woman within the wee hours of Feb. 26, 2023.
When he requested her age, she instructed him that she was 17.
After offering the person with sexual providers in a Lengkok Bahru rest room close to Redhill Street, the woman acquired S$600, of which S$200 was handed to the intermediary.
Additionally they exchanged Telegram contact data.
He then paid S$350 for her sexual providers once more on Mar. 2, 2023.
Man was extorted of $50k after revealing he knew the woman was a minor
Additional particulars of the case had been reported by The Straits Occasions and Right this moment earlier this 12 months.
On Mar. 6, 2023, the person invited the woman to the films with him, promising her $400.
She accepted and instructed an older good friend about him.
They then deliberate to extort cash from him, making use of the very fact he had knowingly obtained sexual providers from a minor.
The three met at a multi-storey carpark in Choa Chu Kang.
The ladies instructed him he might be jailed in the event that they had been to inform the police what he had carried out and threatened to lodge a police report if he refused to pay up.
The person initially supplied to pay between S$2,000 and S$5,000.
In response, the woman instructed him she was S$100,000 in debt.
Ultimately, they agreed upon a cost of $50,000 in alternate for the women’ silence.
Man instructed the police he had been ‘scammed’, arrested the subsequent day
On Apr. 3, 2023, the person reported to the police he had been “scammed”.
The subsequent day, he was arrested, as was the youthful woman.
The person pleaded responsible to at least one rely of procuring sexual providers from a minor, with one other comparable cost considered for sentencing.
The prosecution requested for a custodial sentence, as despite the fact that the person had not actively sought business intercourse with a minor, he had requested and came upon about her age.
Although the person had claimed he didn’t know that an individual under 18 years previous was thought-about a minor, the prosecutor identified that the Excessive Court docket had beforehand dominated that “ignorance of the legislation shouldn’t be a defence”.
The older woman pleaded responsible to at least one rely every of dishonest and extortion on Feb. 22, 2024.
She was ordered to endure at the very least six months of reformative coaching.
The youthful woman’s case is pending.
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