Lau Seng Kee laid in wait for the victim while she was playing hide-and-seek with her sister at an HDB void deck, say prosecutors.
SINGAPORE: A stranger who sexually assaulted a six-year-old girl while she played hide-and-seek at the void deck of a Housing Board block was sentenced to 11 years' jail on Monday .
He also admitted to six or seven instances when he went around looking specifically for"round-faced" young primary school girls, prosecutors said.Two other charges were considered for sentencing - for sexual exploitation of the six-year-old on the same occasion in 2014, and for an obscene act committed in public in front of another young girl in 2022.
The school bus then came and both sisters boarded it. Later that night, during dinner, the victim told her father what had happened and he lodged a police report. The breakthrough came in May 2022. Police got a call from a parent who identified Lau as the man who had stared at and approached his nine-year-old daughter at a playground, even offering to buy her ice cream.
They described Lau's conduct as"predatory", as he laid in wait for the victim and lured her away from her sister and maid to an isolated stairwell.
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