SINGAPORE: A former security consultant was jailed four months on Tuesday for having sex with an underaged Vietnamese prostitute.
49-year-old Winson Chan Swee Teck was found guilty of paying the girl S$100 for her sexual services.
The girl, who is now 17 years old, cannot be named to protect her identity.
Chan is one of three men who were earlier charged for having commerical sex with the same girl.
Chan,
who is divorced, had sex with her at a hotel at Lorong 28 Geylang in
July 2011. This was after the girl lied that she was 20 years ago and
refused to show him her passport.
The first of the trio to be sentenced for the offence was a former land and estate executive with the Singapore Land Authority.
57-year-old
Kum Chin Tiong, was sentenced to nine months jail in January after he
pleaded guilty to paying S$100 for sex with the girl.
A third
man, 55-year-old Yeo Joo Meng, a store personnel, also allegedly paid
the girl between S$100 and S$130 for her sexual services.
It is
an offence to pay for sex with a person under 18 years of age. If
convicted, they could be jailed for up to seven years and fined.
-CNA/ac