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April 9, 2009
Teen on probation over sex <!--10 min-->
<!-- headline one : start --> <!-- headline one : end --> <!-- Author --> <!-- show image if available --> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr></tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold">By Elena Chong
</td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--> A TEENAGER who had sex with a 10-year-old girl in late 2007 was placed on 18 months' probation on Thursday. Xia Yun, 19, who pleaded guilty last month to two charges of having sex with a girl under 16, will have to do 100 hours of community service. His parents, both permanent residents, signed a $5,000 bond to ensure he behaves.
Xia, who is not working or schooling, became acquainted with the girl in December 2007 when she was surfing a multi-player online gaming website. Since then, they would contact each other through calls and text messages. After he sent her a love poem on Feb 14, 2007, she was touched. Soon they became a couple and would meet often in Tampines. The girl, who is now 12, went to his sister's barbecue gathering at East Coast Park on Nov 8 that year and spent the night there with him and his elder sister.
The next morning, he took her to his flat where they had consensual sex. She was then 10. They had sex again the following month after she turned 11. The girl's father reported to the police in January last year that she had been molested. Two other similar charges were taken into consideration.
The girls has been sent to a children's home. Xia, who could have been jailed for up to five years and fined up to $10,000 on each charge, married another teen, also 19, early this year and they have a 1 1/2-month-old baby boy.
April 9, 2009
Teen on probation over sex <!--10 min-->
<!-- headline one : start --> <!-- headline one : end --> <!-- Author --> <!-- show image if available --> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr></tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold">By Elena Chong
</td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--> A TEENAGER who had sex with a 10-year-old girl in late 2007 was placed on 18 months' probation on Thursday. Xia Yun, 19, who pleaded guilty last month to two charges of having sex with a girl under 16, will have to do 100 hours of community service. His parents, both permanent residents, signed a $5,000 bond to ensure he behaves.
Xia, who is not working or schooling, became acquainted with the girl in December 2007 when she was surfing a multi-player online gaming website. Since then, they would contact each other through calls and text messages. After he sent her a love poem on Feb 14, 2007, she was touched. Soon they became a couple and would meet often in Tampines. The girl, who is now 12, went to his sister's barbecue gathering at East Coast Park on Nov 8 that year and spent the night there with him and his elder sister.
The next morning, he took her to his flat where they had consensual sex. She was then 10. They had sex again the following month after she turned 11. The girl's father reported to the police in January last year that she had been molested. Two other similar charges were taken into consideration.
The girls has been sent to a children's home. Xia, who could have been jailed for up to five years and fined up to $10,000 on each charge, married another teen, also 19, early this year and they have a 1 1/2-month-old baby boy.
