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SINGAPORE – Another man appeared in district court this week on a sexual abuse charge involving a child.
The case of Mohamed Taha Ahmad is the fourth to be reported in The Straits Times.
The 60-year-old Singaporean allegedly sexually abused a 12-year-old boy in a block of flats on Bedok North Street 3.
He was charged on Friday (October 30) with one count of sexual abuse.
The court heard that around 11 a.m. on October 22, Taha allegedly put on the boy’s shorts and underwear.
It is said that he sexually abused the boy after that.
Police said in a statement that they received a report on the incident on October 23.
Officers from the Bedok Police Division established the identity of the alleged abuser with the help of images from police cameras.
They arrested him five days later.
The offenders in two of the other three cases heard in court this week were subjected to gag orders to protect the identity of their victims.
On Tuesday, former Singapore Armed Forces regular Mohamed Ardlee Iriandee Mohamed Sanip, 40, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison and six strokes of the baton after sexually abusing an eight-year-old girl in January 2018.
He tried to abuse a 10-year-old girl four months later.
In another case, a 25-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to two years in jail with five strokes of the baton and a $ 2,500 fine after sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy in March this year.
On Thursday, a 20-year-old was ordered to undergo reform training for at least a year for sexually abusing his young cousin from 2014 to 2017.
The youth will be detained in a facility and made to follow a strict regimen that includes foot drills and counseling.
Her cousin was only nine years old when he attacked her for the first time.
Taha’s bond was set at $ 8,000 on Friday and her case was postponed until November 27.
For sexually abusing a child under the age of 14, an offender can be imprisoned for up to five years and fined or punished.
Taha cannot be whipped because she is over 50 years old.
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