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Ex-teacher jailed four years and nine months for sex with student
Published on Jun 30, 2014 1:34 PM
By Elena Chong
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SINGAPORE - A teacher who headed his school's department for character and citizenship was sentenced to four years and nine months' jail on Monday for sexually abusing a 15-year-old student.
The teacher, who is now 33 and unemployed, had admitted to five of 10 charges of sex-related offences between September and December 2012.
The court heard that the local merit teaching scholar was the girl's form teacher in 2011, and by year-end, they had communicated with each other via WhatsApp text messages and over Facebook.
In 2012 - when he taught her literature - she started confiding in him about her family and her struggles with her studies after going on an overseas trip he led. He had a fiancee by then.
Get the full story from The Straits Times.
