Tutor jailed, caned for repeatedly molesting 12-year-old pupil
Published on Jun 14, 2013
Tuition teacher Benjamin Lee Kee Tat, who repeatedly molested a 12-year-old boy for nearly two hours, was sentenced to nine months' jail and three strokes of the cane on Friday, June 14, 2013. -- ST POSED PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN
By Elena Chong
A tuition teacher, who repeatedly molested a 12-year-old boy for nearly two hours, was sentenced to nine months' jail and three strokes of the cane on Friday. Benjamin Lee Kee Tat, 24, pleaded guilty to repeatedly hugging the pupil from behind and stroking his private parts at a tuition centre in Woodlands on May 25, 2011.
In sentencing him District Judge Lim Keng Yeow said this was the kind of offence every child in Singapore should be protected from and every would-be predatory sex offender must be warned against. He described Lee's acts against his pupil as "heinous, reprehensible and utterly deplorable''.
Assistant Public Prosecutor Dillon Kok had told the court that the victim's tuition mate was absent when Lee molested him during mathematics tuition that day. Lee's assault was two hours long and he was persistent, he said.
The boy was shocked and very frightened when Lee kept touching and stroking him over his pants. To make him stop, the boy asked Lee how to solve a question. But after answering him Lee continued molesting him. Subsequently Lee turned the victim's chair to face him and tried to unbutton the victim's pants but the boy pushed him away.
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