SINGAPORE: A 34-year-old man was sentenced on Monday (Sep 5) to 20 years' jail and 24 strokes of the cane after sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl and giving her drugs. Muhammad Hisham Abdul Karim 'trawled the Internet' before zeroing in on a primary school student and befriending her via Instagram, t
SINGAPORE: A 34-year-old man was sentenced on Monday to 20 years' jail and 24 strokes of the cane after sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl and giving her drugs.
Hisham pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual assault by penetration of a minor, with another 11 charges taken into consideration. Hisham met the victim at a staircase landing in a building sometime before mid-November 2017, according to court documents. They chatted in the back of the lorry, and Hisham produced a white crystalline substance, telling her it was Ice, a street name for meth. He also gave her a glass ball with a rubber tube and told her to smoke it.Their relationship later soured and they stopped contacting each other. The offences came to light in February 2020, when the victim attended a session with a case worker and revealed that she had sex with Hisham in 2017.
Giving the girl a drug to consume was an aggravating factor as it would have rendered her more vulnerable, said Justice Chionh.
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