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On Monday, Judge Mesenas called for a report to assess the offender's suitability for probation. She also took her son to a neighbourhood police centre to lodge a report. The boy's mother saw the text messages on March 27 and alerted her son's school. The victim continued to reject the accused's requests." "At one point, the accused even offered the victim $10 to have a video call with him, for the victim to show the accused his private parts. For the next few days, the accused continued to harass the victim by asking him to send these photos to him. On March 21, he started sending the boy text messages, asking him to send nude pictures of himself.ĭPP Lai told District Judge May Mesenas: "The victim replied 'no' and did not do what the accused asked of him. Soon after, the teenager befriended the 10-year-old boy as they were in the same student care programme. The offender called the police hotline, claiming that he had been assaulted and managed to run away.Ĭourt documents did not state what happened following the call to the police hotline. The older teen was waiting for the boy at the latter's home when the group turned up to confront him. On Jan 5 this year, the victim told his senior school mates about his ordeal and they decided to confront the offender. They frequently hanged out at the younger boy's home.īut the older teen started molesting the boy later that year. He cannot be named due to a gag order to protect his victims' identities.ĭeputy Public Prosecutor Nicholas Lai told the court that the offender first met the 13-year-old boy at a school camp in January last year, but lost contact with him and reconnected at a barbecue event seven months later. On Monday (Dec 17), the offender, now 18, pleaded guilty to one count each of molestation and sexual exploitation of a child. This time, however, the teen was caught after the child's mother came across the text messages that he had sent to her son. He repeatedly harassed the child to send nude pictures of himself but was rejected. The older teen, who was 17 at the time, molested him frequently by grabbing his private parts.ĭespite being confronted by the victim's friends, the offender managed to get away.Īnd he soon set his sight on a second victim - a 10-year-old boy. A teenager befriended a 13-year-old from his secondary school and started hanging out with the younger boy.īut their meet-ups soon turned into nightmare for the boy.