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SINGAPORE, Sept. 28 (The Straits Times / ANN): A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty on Monday (Sept. 28) to handcuffing and blindfolding a girl, then 13, before committing various indecent acts with her in a bathroom for the disabled in Plaza. Singapura last year.
Alaric Lim Qixian was then a full-time national serviceman with the Singapore Civil Defense Force (SCDF).
The girl cannot be named due to a gag order to protect her identity.
District Judge Sharmila Sripathy called for parole and reform training reports to be made.
Lim faces one count of indecent act with a child under the Children and Youth Act, as well as two counts of insulting the modesty of two women.
The court heard that in March 2019, Lim met the girl at a cosplay event before they began messaging each other on Instagram.
He claimed to be a photographer who took what he called “risky” pictures of women in minimal clothing and offered to take those pictures of her.
The girl said she wanted to participate in a photoshoot that featured bondage, discipline or domination, sadism and masochism, or BDSM, but clarified that she did not want to go completely naked.
Then Lim offered to give the girl a test and suggested they go to a dark part of a shopping mall.
After agreeing to meet at Plaza Singapura, the couple spent 15 minutes playing a mobile game before Lim pulled out a rope, black bandage, and black leather handcuffs.
In a handicapped bathroom on the fourth floor, he began to touch her under her shirt.
The court heard that the girl told him to stop and he withdrew his hands but soon began licking her.
The test lasted 15 minutes and the girl was “shocked and disgusted” but did not yell for help because she was afraid of what Lim would do.
Afterward, he took a bus home, showered, and told his mother. They made a police report the next day.
Later, videos were found under the skirts of two women on Lim’s phone. She had taken them at Bukit Panjang MRT Station on January 8-11, 2018.
Assistant District Attorney Joshua Phang noted that Lim had committed “three serious crimes of a sexual nature.”
Lim’s attorney, Richard Lim, argued that his client had met the girl at a cosplay event, and since this involved costumed role-playing characters, his client did not believe his acts were sexual in nature.
He said Lim was admitted to the Institute of Mental Health in June of last year for an adjustment disorder and has been seeing psychiatrists regularly.
District Judge Sripathy noted that Lim showed “an escalation of sexual (offenses) over a period of more than a year.”
Lim’s case will be heard soon on November 10 – The Straits Times / Asian News Network
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