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Teen on 1-year probation for deceiving minor into having sex
Published on Jan 10, 2012
By Khushwant Singh
A teenager told his girlfriend that they could have unprotected sex as the menthol in the cigarettes he smoked would have killed his sperm. This was just a teenage myth and the 15-year-old girl became pregnant.
On Tuesday, Peter Mark Ng Jia Jun, now a full-time national serviceman, was placed on probation for a year.
He had pleaded guilty in December to having sex with a girl below the age of 16 years in 2010. A district court heard Ng was then 19 years old and unemployed. The girl, 15, was a secondary school student. They got to know each other in early March that year and started going steady soon after. The girl had told Ng that she was turning 16 later that year but this did not stop him from having sex with her.
The first time was in a toilet sometime in March 2010. She had asked him then why he did not use a condom and he told her that he smoked cigarettes and the menthol in them would kill off his sperm. She believed him and they had unprotected sex on two other occasions in Ng's flat in March and April.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
