A FORMER information technology specialist who caused a minor to have sex with an 18-year-old part-time model in the first case of its kind was sentenced to six months’ jail.
The 41-year-old, who cannot be named, took photographs of the poses and sexual acts between the minor, then 15, and the teenage model whom he had hired for a “couple shoot’’ at Conrad Centennial Hotel sometime in late October or early November 2012.
At some point, the accused put the camera on “auto’’ mode, took off his clothes and joined the minor and the model on the bed and engaged in sexual activity with her.
The accused, a Singapore permanent resident, is from India and has been working for an IT company for 13 years before he quit.
Two other charges including procuring the minor to perform an obscene act on the model were taken into consideration during his sentencing.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Kavita Uthrapathy said the accused neither ascertained nor verified the minor’s age.
It was him who recruited and led the minor into sexual activity at a tender age, directed and told him what to do, making him perform all sorts of lewd acts, culminating in a sexual threesome.
She argued that there was a strong element of moral corruption of the sexually inexperienced minor by the accused.
The offences came to light early last year when the minor’s guardian’s son saw the photographs of the minor involved in the threesome on the Internet. The minor lodged a report the next day, on Jan 9. — The Straits Times / Asia News Network
