Man pleads guilty to underage sex offences with girls he met on Instagram – CNA

SINGAPORE: A teenager chatted up underage girls on Instagram before engaging in sex acts with them. The offender, who is now 20, pleaded guilty on Thursday (Dec 16) to four charges of sexual penetration of a minor. Another 11 charges, including molestation and sexual exploitation of a child or young person, will be taken into consideration for sentencing. The victims are protected by a gag order, and the accused cannot be named as he was under 18 at the time of some of the offences. The court heard that the accused struck up a conversation with a 14-year-old girl on Instagram in early 2018, when he was 16. They began “exchanging flirtatious messages on Instagram and Telegram”, before agreeing to meet at the girl’s house in April 2018. She snuck him into her bedroom, said the prosecutor, and they watched a movie on her bed. The accused then began kissing the girl and touching her legs before having underage sex with her and persuading her to perform a sex act on him. The accused knew that the victim was under 16, said the prosecutor. They met only once and stopped texting shortly after. The second victim, also 14 at the…
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