Teenager pleads guilty to 3 counts of molest

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Teenager pleads guilty to 3 counts of molest
By Shaffiq Alkhatib | Posted: 30 June 2010 1815 hrs
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SINGAPORE : A teenager has pleaded guilty to three counts of molest - with one of the victims being an 11-year-old girl.

Eighteen-year-old Muhammad Sadiq Syed Kadir entered a lift with her at Block 45, Chai Chee Street at 5.40pm on January 27 last year.

Shortly after the doors closed, he grabbed hold of her t-shirt and pushed her backwards, causing her to fall to the floor. Muhammad Sadiq then pulled down the girl's shorts and molested her.

He stopped touching her by the time the doors opened. However, the girl managed to tell a man who was standing outside the lift about her ordeal.

The man threw a punch at Muhammad Sadiq and a scuffle soon broke out between the two. The teenager broke his nose in the fight and the man brought him to a Singapore Civil Defence Force fire post located at the void deck of the block of flats.

Muhammad Sadiq was taken to a hospital and the police arrived not long afterwards to interview the girl.

The court also heard that he had molested a 19-year-old girl in a lift at Block 19 Chai Chee Road at around 11.45pm on 16 August 2008.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Sanjiv Vaswani told District Judge Soh Tze Bian that Muhammad Sadiq had also molested a 17-year-old girl at around 3pm on August 28 last year.

She was sitting in an SBS bus service 7, which was going towards Bedok Interchange, when Muhammad Sadiq sat down behind her. He then pretended to fall asleep and used his fingers to touch her left breast.

The girl reported the matter to the bus captain who detained Muhammad Sadiq at the control station of Bedok Interchange.

The judge has called for a probation as well as a Reformative Training Centre report.

Muhammad Sadiq will appear again in court on July 21.

Those convicted of molesting children below the age of 14 could be jailed between three and ten years, and caned.

- CNA/al