HE WAITED FOR PREY IN THE LOO

SEXUAL ASSAULT

Ong Dai Lin, dailin@mediacorp.com.sg

HE WAITED for the seven-year-old boy in a public toilet at the Yishun Community Library. Then, on the pretext of helping him urinate, Chan Kok Weng sexually assaulted the boy.

Yesterday, the driver-cum-deliveryman pleaded guilty in the High Court to one charge of performing oral sex on the boy on April 27 last year.

Chan, 29, was having lunch at a coffeeshop near the Yishun library at 1pm on that day while waiting to pick up his father from the hospital.

Chan later hovered around the library’s premises to look for “targets” - young boys going to the toilet alone.

At around 1.50pm, the victim’s mother took him and his sister to the library. The mother later took the boy to the male toilet at his request.

Chan, who noticed what was happening, immediately went into the toilet to wait for the boy.

The victim then entered the toilet alone. There was no one else there.

Chan approached the boy on the pretext of helping him urinate and told him to remove his shorts and underwear.

He later lured the boy into one of the cubicles and performed oral sex on the boy.

Chan became afraid when the boy’s mother called for her son. He immediately helped the boy put on his shorts and underwear.

He also helped the boy to wash his hands. The boy then left the toilet while Chan remained inside.

The boy’s mother noticed that his hands were wet and he related to her what had happened.

The woman immediately informed the library staff and one male staff went to check the male toilet.

He found Chan hiding in a cubicle and the police were called in.

Chan faces a jail term of between eight and 20 years and at least 12 strokes of the cane.

He is the second man to be convicted under a sexual assault provision that was included in the Penal Code in February last year.

In March, a 26-year-old water cooler repairman, who performed oral sex on a seven-year-old boy in a school toilet, was sentenced to 10 years’ jail and 12 strokes of the cane.

From TODAY, News; Friday, 15-May-2009

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