SINGAPORE — After befriending a primary school student through social media platform Instagram, Muhammad Hisham Abdul Karim engaged in sex acts with the 11-year-old and even offered her methamphetamine.
His actions only came to light three years later when she confided in a case worker about what had happened.
This was not Hisham’s first brush with the law, having been jailed 10 months in 2016 for sexually penetrating a 15-year-old girl.She made reference to her school in her Instagram bio, which is a description of someone’s account that sits at the top of a profile page. She also posted photographs of herself wearing her school jersey.The girl also noticed that he had followed several of her primary school friends and interacted with their posts, such as by liking them.
On one occasion, they engaged in sex acts at a staircase landing of a Housing and Development Board block of flats. They chatted at the back of the lorry for a while before he offered her methamphetamine, also known as Ice. Around November 2017, their relationship soured and they stopped meeting and exchanging text messages.
Justice Chionh also told the court that Hisham’s previous jail sentence “did not teach him anything, certainly neither contribution nor self-restraint”.
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