SINGAPORE: An 18-year-old school dropout has been sentenced to 10 years’ jail and 12 strokes of the cane for sexually violating three teenage girls and raping another. Anthony Lim Yao Ming pleaded guilty on Monday (Mar 12) to two charges, which involve two girls – a 13-year-old and a
SINGAPORE: An 18-year-old school dropout has been sentenced to 10 years’ jail and 12 strokes of the cane for sexually violating three teenage girls and raping another.
Anthony Lim Yao Ming pleaded guilty on Monday (Mar 12) to two charges, which involve two girls – a 13-year-old and a 14-year-old – with very low to borderline intelligence. Another eight charges were taken into consideration in sentencing.
The offences took place over three years. He was only 14 when he committed his first offence.
“(He) may have been young when he sexually violated four different girls, but the (manner) in which he perpetrated these offences belie his tender age,” Deputy Public Prosecutor Kavita Uthrapathy said.
“(Lim’s) modus operandi involved exploiting the gullibility and loneliness of adolescent girls and convincing them that they shared a genuine romantic relationship (with him), only to use them for his own sexual gratification at the very first meeting”, she told the High Court.
Lim befriended a 13-year-old girl on Facebook in January 2016. They started chatting and six days later, Lim asked her to be his girlfriend.
