Man Jailed & Caned for Raping Young Daughter for Over 7 Years & Sexually Abusing Her Best Friend

The main role of a parent, in addition to nourishing and educating their child, is to look after them and protect them from harm.

There are all sorts of deviants with deplorable desires out there and parents have to constantly keep a close watch on their kids to ensure nothing happens to them.

Unfortunately for one girl, her father happened to be the sexual deviant she should have been protected from.

And since no one knew what was going on, she was abused for over 7 years.

Targeted His Daughter When Wife Was Not Around

The man, a permanent resident here, is originally from a country in Europe. The 44-year-old married his wife in his home country and moved to Singapore where they lived in two condominium complexes.

The girl was aged about three to seven when the man gave in to his depraved urges.

It started in 2011, when the two were watching a TV programme. The young girl became afraid of showering alone after watching the programme, so the man accompanied her.

There, he developed a sexual desire for the young girl. He realised he was a paedophile and that there was “no turning back”, as the prosecution told the court.

The frequency of his sexual abuse increased after they moved to their second residence nearby. He would target his daughter when his wife wasn’t around.

The man groomed her by showing her pornographic videos, including one of a child having sex with her father. He first raped her when she was nine.

The girl told him “no, I don’t want to” when he first tried to rape her. He told her to “try for a few minutes”, showing her pornography before raping her.

She kept silent about the abuse because she was scared and did not want her parents to divorce.

The man continued to rape her repeatedly for around seven-and-a-half years despite his daughter’s pleas to stop. She didn’t stop him because he was her father and she didn’t think she could protest.

Abused Daughter’s Friend as Well

The man’s crimes came to light when he abused his daughter’s friend as well, who hails from a Southeast Asian country.

The daughter’s best friend, who was also her schoolmate, lived in the same condominium in 2016.

The friend’s parents thought of the man and his wife as close friends and allowed their daughter to go over to their place.

On one occasion, the man kissed his daughter’s friend on the lips and told her to keep it a secret.

The man then started sexually assaulting both his daughter and her friend while they were watching a movie in the master bedroom.

The friend declined to go over again after this in order to avoid the man.

Then, when the daughter’s friend returned to her home country, she revealed that the man had sexually assaulted her while confessing her sins during a First Communion ceremony, a rite of passage for many Catholic children.

Her parents took her to lodge a police report when she returned to Singapore.

Arrested Two Days After Last Sexual Assault

The man was arrested on 1 July 2019, just two days after he last raped his daughter.

The authorities discovered many obscene films in his devices, including those with young and prepubescent girls.

On Monday (26 Apr), the man was sentenced to 28 years’ jail and the maximum 24 strokes of the cane after pleading guilty to three charges of statutory rape last month.

High Court judge Mavis Chionh said on Monday that the greatest tragedy in this case is that the young girl was “robbed of her childhood innocence by her own father”.

While the man was diagnosed with paedophilic disorder, he was assessed to be of sound mind by a psychiatrist from the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) and could thus able to resist acting on his depraved desires (which he clearly did not).

He has since divorced his wife, who is also a permanent resident.

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