SINGAPORE – Parents and teachers of Pei Hwa Presbyterian primary school in Toh Yi have been told to be alert to a bespectacled man in his 30s who has been spotted chatting with children to get their telephone numbers. A group of residents in the same estate, who call themselves the Toh Yi Residents’ Network, had also alerted residents in...
An image shared in a WhatsApp group of the man loittering at a playground in Toh Yi. PHOTO: ST READERSINGAPORE – Parents and teachers of Pei Hwa Presbyterian primary school in Toh Yi have been told to be alert to a bespectacled man in his 30s who has been spotted chatting with children to get their telephone numbers.
Several residents received the information via a Telegram chat group, said Mr Jeff Escanuela, who has lived in the Toh Yi area since 2007. The Telegram alert, which was shared widely, has prompted parents in a WhatsApp group to ask if a recent exchange in Thomson is related. The father said he confronted the man after his daughter told him about the incident. He then got the stranger to delete her number, and the man complied.
“I really have no intentions but just want to make friends,” John says in the video, adding: “I’m not going to make friends with young girls any more.”
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