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He was convicted at the close of trial of two counts of molesting a minor. His daughter testified that her father molested her after using his computer when she was five or six and in kindergarten.
According to her testimony, she was eating cereal in the living room of the family flat on an afternoon in 2009 when her father called her into the bedroom.
He asked her to sit on his leg, before grabbing her hand and forcing her to perform a sex act. He then molested her and exposed himself to her, she said.
The victim testified that she "just let him do whatever he wants to do" because he was her father, and she did not want to disobey him. She said her father was looking back and forth between her and the computer while this was happening.
She left the room after saying she wanted to eat. Her father told her not to tell her mother what happened, she testified
In his defence, the man claimed the incidence was "misconstrued". He claimed his daughter had fallen from his lap while he was playing a computer game, and he had grabbed her.
The defence also claimed the man's daughter had motivations for making a false allegation against him, "arising from the animosity held against him for perceived and actual faults as a father".
This include: The offender criticising the way the victim dressed, the victim wanting to get rid of the offender's joint custody of her and the offender confronting the victim over a relationship she had when she was older.
When he was on the stand, the offender said he was "slightly strict" with the victim because he saw "love bites" on her neck made by her boyfriend.
He said he did not understand why his daughter would make such an allegation against him.
"Maybe it is because my ex-wife kept pressuring my daughter. She kept telling that her father is a useless person because I always like to go out of Singapore to find girlfriend," he said.
"Maybe because my ex-wife does not want me to have my son or my daughter. I told my wife to allow to use one of my children’s name to apply for a house or a rental house so that I have a place to stay. She kept on telling me that the children refuse."
The judge had convicted him after finding the victim's evidence clear, credible and unusually convincing. He rejected the man's account that the victim had misconstrued his acts of catching the victim as she fell from his lap as molest.
He also rejected any suggestion of possible motivation on the victim's part to implicate her father.
According to her testimony, she was eating cereal in the living room of the family flat on an afternoon in 2009 when her father called her into the bedroom.
He asked her to sit on his leg, before grabbing her hand and forcing her to perform a sex act. He then molested her and exposed himself to her, she said.
The victim testified that she "just let him do whatever he wants to do" because he was her father, and she did not want to disobey him. She said her father was looking back and forth between her and the computer while this was happening.
She left the room after saying she wanted to eat. Her father told her not to tell her mother what happened, she testified
In his defence, the man claimed the incidence was "misconstrued". He claimed his daughter had fallen from his lap while he was playing a computer game, and he had grabbed her.
The defence also claimed the man's daughter had motivations for making a false allegation against him, "arising from the animosity held against him for perceived and actual faults as a father".
This include: The offender criticising the way the victim dressed, the victim wanting to get rid of the offender's joint custody of her and the offender confronting the victim over a relationship she had when she was older.
When he was on the stand, the offender said he was "slightly strict" with the victim because he saw "love bites" on her neck made by her boyfriend.
He said he did not understand why his daughter would make such an allegation against him.
"Maybe it is because my ex-wife kept pressuring my daughter. She kept telling that her father is a useless person because I always like to go out of Singapore to find girlfriend," he said.
"Maybe because my ex-wife does not want me to have my son or my daughter. I told my wife to allow to use one of my children’s name to apply for a house or a rental house so that I have a place to stay. She kept on telling me that the children refuse."
The judge had convicted him after finding the victim's evidence clear, credible and unusually convincing. He rejected the man's account that the victim had misconstrued his acts of catching the victim as she fell from his lap as molest.
He also rejected any suggestion of possible motivation on the victim's part to implicate her father.
