Former teacher pleads guilty to underage sex with student
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SINGAPORE: A former secondary school teacher pleaded guilty to having sex with his underaged student, claiming it made him feel "more of a man".
Currently unemployed, the 41-year-old was found guilty of five counts of underage sex with the girl, who was 14 years old at that time.
They had sex on more than 15 occasions within a two-year period from end 2007, at various places including a Co-Curricular Activity (CCA) room of the school.
The teacher, who headed the school's design and technology department, was also in charge of the "Robotics Club" which the girl joined in 2006.
He asked the girl to be his girlfriend because he found her attractive.
The man, who was then married with a child, also bought her gifts when they were on school trips together to South Korea.
They started becoming intimate in the Robotics CCA room in the school by hugging and kissing each other.
He had sex with the girl the first time on a sofa bed inside the room.
This continued on several occasions in 2008 and the court heard that the teacher did not use a condom for most of the encounters.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Kavita Uthrapathy, who pressed for a jail term of between seven and 10 years, said "it was entirely fortuitous that the girl did not get pregnant".
The girl's age also came under scrutiny, with Ms Uthrapathy saying he had "preyed on her youth and vulnerability".
She added that the abuse of trust was a serious aggravating factor, and the teacher had also "violated the sanctity of the school" by committing the offences "very brazenly during the day."
The incident was only brought to light when his wife, who just gave birth to their second child, discovered text messages between the two in January 2010.
A few months later, she informed the girl's mother of the illicit relationship and a police report was made.
The court also heard that the teacher had harassed the girl over the phone, threatening to reveal the affair to her friends.
Ms Uthrapathy added that this caused the girl distress and recurrent nightmares, and she felt "trapped and traumatised".
The court also heard that the man did not express any form of guilt or remorse after committing the offence.
He was also observed to have acted normally by his wife and principals of his former schools.
But the court heard Friday that the man, who has no previous brushes with the law and received numerous awards during his time as a teacher, was remorseful.
He will be sentenced on January 17 next year.
If convicted, he could be jailed up to 10 years, fined or both.
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Hmm I hope people won't think badly about teachers just because of this one incident...
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aiyah....fringe benefit mah...........
waaah, sex with girl in school ah...............this guy has balls............
i salute him..........
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This kind of teacher also have, really spoil our professional educator image man!
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Salute him?-.-..
He is a monster.
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cane buttokks
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so the wifey s3xposed him
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Now teachers are in the lime light. Its not easy to be betray by your own wife . The wife is doing for revenge . Women' power.
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They had sex on more than 15 occasions within a two-year period from end 2007, at various places including a Co-Curricular Activity (CCA) room of the school.
Cane him 24 strokes.
Fuck one time, cane one time.
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power hoh the girl also itch also lah . if i kena i sure tell me mom sia lolz
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This kind of teacher also have, really spoil our professional educator image man!
I think there will be more shocking stories to come.
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What image of professional educator are you talking about ?
The teacher is also human and human will stray.
It take both hands to clap.
Maybe the student seduced the teacher ?
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Haiz
when the girl wan break up
he cry and beg her not to
and wala0 gt wife and 2 kid nt enough? -
I always wanted to be a teacher, and I still want to.
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Originally posted by Dalforce 1941:
Cane him 24 strokes.
Fuck one time, cane one time.
In front of the school he commited the offences.
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If you cheat on your wife by bonking a young girl under your care.....
..... how does that make you 'more of a man'?
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hong kong also has a lot of such cases.
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Originally posted by fudgester:
If you cheat on your wife by bonking a young girl under your care.....
..... how does that make you 'more of a man'?
It means you can bonk two at a time?
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Teacher jailed eight years for having sex with student
SINGAPORE: In sentencing a former secondary school teacher who had sex with his underaged student to eight years' jail on Tuesday, a district judge said these offences caused "a feeling of outrage and revulsion in the community".
"The sentence must reflect that feeling," said Judge Jasvender Kaur.
The 41-year-old man, who headed the school's design and technology department, met the girl, then 14, when she joined the Robotics Club in 2006. He wooed her with gifts, told her she was pretty and lied that his marriage was on the rocks.
The man then had sex with the girl on more than 15 occasions over an 18-month period in various places, including the school's co-curricular activities room and his car at Upper Seletar Reservoir Park.
Judge Kaur said the most serious aggravating factor in this case was that the former teacher - who cannot be identified to protect the minor - had "breached the trust reposed in him by the school, by the girl's parents and by the girl itself".
"The offender has destroyed the fundamental feeling of safety and protection that teachers entrusted with the care and education of students must provide," she said.
Judge Kaur noted that the teacher was called up by the school's management about six months after he initiated the sexual trysts.
"He lied to cover up by claiming that he was like a father to the girl. Instead of repenting and putting a stop to his unlawful and deplorable conduct ... he persisted," said the judge.
The man was sacked from the Education Service following the revelation of his relationship to the girl.
Judge Kaur was "not impressed" with the man's claim of "a romantic relationship" between the pair, noting the "wide age disparity" of 23 years.
As for the man's claim that the offences were triggered by depression, Judge Kaur felt it did not lessen the offender's responsibility.
She stressed that the "primary policy of the law is to protect the young, who can be easily influenced at an age when they are emotionally vulnerable".
"It has to be made clear to persons occupying such positions of trust, and the parents of students who are the recipients of that trust, that an abuse of it will lead to heavy sentences from the courts," she said.- TODAY
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Read that this guy was jailed for 8 years a few days ago....
Isn't it funny that the 32 year old female teacher who had sex with her student was only jailed for 10 months while this guy got 8 years?In any case,if you are a guy...even if the gal initiated sex and you got caught,sure kena chialat cos being guys who are involved in a sex case,always on the losing end thanks to the Women's Charter.
Come to think of it,some of these young women were not angels either.
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Chop off kkj~~~
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Should have a general rule not to allow male teachers to be alone with one female student at any point in time especially during CCA.
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i wonder if i do the teecher dotters how he feel huh?
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Originally posted by RalliartTurbo:
Read that this guy was jailed for 8 years a few days ago....
Isn't it funny that the 32 year old female teacher who had sex with her student was only jailed for 10 months while this guy got 8 years?In any case,if you are a guy...even if the gal initiated sex and you got caught,sure kena chialat cos being guys who are involved in a sex case,always on the losing end thanks to the Women's Charter.
Come to think of it,some of these young women were not angels either.
That's why I said the law is an ass and nothing but an ass. It was enacted to stop girls from losing their virginity before they turn 16. Sadly many of them wilfully chose to give it away at 13.5. Time to bring down the age of consent since the current legislation no longer serves any purpose.
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If the age is lower, more cases will surface and the teacher will not be punished.
If you have a daughter, you would not allow such a rule change.