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SINGAPORE – Prosecutors have urged the court to sentence a former Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) regular to nine years in prison with seven strokes of a cane after he sexually abused a girl in January 2018 and attempted to abuse another. girl four months later.
On Thursday (October 1), Deputy Prosecutor Sruthi Boppana said that Mohamed Ardlee Iriandee Mohamed Sanip had committed serious crimes.
He also said that Ardlee had targeted two young victims.
Defense attorney Mohamed Muzammil Mohamed requested a lighter sentence and claimed that his client was in a period of stress when he committed the crimes.
District Judge John Ng also heard that Ardlee had been diagnosed with anxiety and depression.
The 40-year-old Singaporean had previously claimed a trial, and on February 27, Judge Ng found him guilty of sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl in January 2018.
On March 23, Ardlee admitted in court that he tried to abuse a 10-year-old girl in May of that year. The two girls cannot be named due to a gag order.
Court documents did not reveal Ardlee’s rank and role at the Safti Military Institute, where he was based at the time of the crimes.
The Straits Times understands that he is no longer a regular with the SAF.
In her previous presentations, DPP Sruthi said that Ardlee had developed an interest in girls a month before targeting the first victim and was “predisposed to thoughts of abusing them, and had thought about doing so by waiting for opportunities near elementary schools. .
The victim and her friend were walking back from school around 3 p.m. on January 22, 2018, when they saw him in a block in Tampines where the friend’s grandparents lived.
The victim accompanied her friend to the apartment and was on her way to her own home when Ardlee grabbed her hand near an elevator lobby and sexually abused her.
He released the girl only after she told him to stop several times. She returned to her friend’s grandparents’ apartment and the police were alerted.
Later that year, on May 21, Ardlee attempted to outrage the modesty of a 10-year-old girl in Choa Chu Kang around 4 p.m. She was on her way home from school when she saw him in the elevator hall on her block.
She entered the elevator alone, but when she reached the second floor, he was in front of the elevator door.
Then he put a hand on her shoulder and dragged her toward the corner of a stair landing. The girl resisted and began to scream.
Ardlee released her and fled. The girl returned home and told her aunt what had happened. The police arrested him the next day.
His bond was set at $ 30,000 on Thursday and he will be sentenced on October 27.
Offenders convicted of sexually abusing a child under the age of 14 can be jailed for up to 10 years and flogged.
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