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Two jailed for gay sex with teen
They took up offers from 15-year-old who pimped himself online
By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
AT THE age of nine, he was already a veteran on social networking websites.
By the time he was 12, he was a regular on an online chatroom popular with homosexual men.
When he was 15, he pimped himself out, posting online messages on the chatroom that he was up for some 'fun' - if the men paid him for it.
At least six men, aged 21 to 50, took him up on his offer.
Now, half are doing time for committing obscene acts with the teenager, who is now 17.
Yesterday, Victor Ng Yong You, 25, and Thomas Song Choong Chen, 37, became the latest to be jailed for the crimes under the Children and Young Persons Act. Both men will spend three months behind bars.
They are among six men who have been taken before the court in connection with the teenager. The youth cannot be named due to a court order.
Quek Hock Sing, 42, a tour guide, was the first to be convicted in January for a similar offence. He was jailed for four months.
Both Ng, who was a property agent at the time, and Song, a supervisor, committed the offences two years ago.
In January 2007, Ng chatted with the youth online and agreed to give him a lift to Wisma Atria to collect his mobile phone.
In return for his help, the teenager offered his sexual services.
Ng drove him to a Bukit Merah carpark, where he performed an obscene act on the teenager.
In the same year, Song agreed to pay the teen $50 for his sexual services.
He went to the teen's home where the teenager, still in his school uniform, told him he was 15 and allowed Song to perform an obscene act on him.
After the act, Song paid the youth $50 and left the flat.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Shahla Iqbal told District Judge Sarjit Singh earlier that the youth would claim he was 16 online, but gave his actual age only after he met or spoke to his potential 'clients' on the phone.
He kept his family in the dark about his activities, and the offences came to light only when his mother received a call from a stranger who told her about her son's activities with gay men in May 2007. She then lodged a police report.
In mitigation, Ng's lawyer, Mr Nicholas Narayanan, said the act was consensual and no force was used.
Song's lawyer, Mr Yusfiyanto Yatiman, said the episode was his client's only sexual encounter with any man.
Far from being a vulnerable victim, the circumstances showed that the teen was 'precocious, bold and his sexual experience and knowledge far surpassed' that of his client, he added.
Ng and Song could each have been fined up to $5,000 and/or jailed for up to two years.
The cases against two others are pending, while the sixth man, Muhammad Hafashah Mohd Aslam, 21, will be sentenced on Aug 26.
Two jailed for gay sex with teen
They took up offers from 15-year-old who pimped himself online
By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
AT THE age of nine, he was already a veteran on social networking websites.
By the time he was 12, he was a regular on an online chatroom popular with homosexual men.
When he was 15, he pimped himself out, posting online messages on the chatroom that he was up for some 'fun' - if the men paid him for it.
At least six men, aged 21 to 50, took him up on his offer.
Now, half are doing time for committing obscene acts with the teenager, who is now 17.
Yesterday, Victor Ng Yong You, 25, and Thomas Song Choong Chen, 37, became the latest to be jailed for the crimes under the Children and Young Persons Act. Both men will spend three months behind bars.
They are among six men who have been taken before the court in connection with the teenager. The youth cannot be named due to a court order.
Quek Hock Sing, 42, a tour guide, was the first to be convicted in January for a similar offence. He was jailed for four months.
Both Ng, who was a property agent at the time, and Song, a supervisor, committed the offences two years ago.
In January 2007, Ng chatted with the youth online and agreed to give him a lift to Wisma Atria to collect his mobile phone.
In return for his help, the teenager offered his sexual services.
Ng drove him to a Bukit Merah carpark, where he performed an obscene act on the teenager.
In the same year, Song agreed to pay the teen $50 for his sexual services.
He went to the teen's home where the teenager, still in his school uniform, told him he was 15 and allowed Song to perform an obscene act on him.
After the act, Song paid the youth $50 and left the flat.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Shahla Iqbal told District Judge Sarjit Singh earlier that the youth would claim he was 16 online, but gave his actual age only after he met or spoke to his potential 'clients' on the phone.
He kept his family in the dark about his activities, and the offences came to light only when his mother received a call from a stranger who told her about her son's activities with gay men in May 2007. She then lodged a police report.
In mitigation, Ng's lawyer, Mr Nicholas Narayanan, said the act was consensual and no force was used.
Song's lawyer, Mr Yusfiyanto Yatiman, said the episode was his client's only sexual encounter with any man.
Far from being a vulnerable victim, the circumstances showed that the teen was 'precocious, bold and his sexual experience and knowledge far surpassed' that of his client, he added.
Ng and Song could each have been fined up to $5,000 and/or jailed for up to two years.
The cases against two others are pending, while the sixth man, Muhammad Hafashah Mohd Aslam, 21, will be sentenced on Aug 26.
