Man who sexually abused 11 girls, including daughter, granddaughters and nieces, jailed for 21 years
SINGAPORE – A 71-year-old man who, over three decades, sexually abused 11 girls, including his daughter, his son’s two daughters and his four nieces, was sentenced to 21 years’ jail on Sept 17.The other four victims were students from an enrichment centre he and his wife ran from 1997 to 2021.The 11 victims were assaulted between 1990 and 2023. Some were as young as five or six years old when he started preying on them.During this period, he was sent to prison twice, in August 1999 and March 2020, for molestation and sexual exploitation offences committed against other victims.But the offences involving the 11 victims came to light only in August 2023 after his granddaughters told their mother he had sexually assaulted them.The man, who uses a wheelchair, now has a rare blood cancer known as myelofibrosis.He cannot be caned as he is over 50, and he cannot be named due to a gag order to prevent the victims from being identified.In sentencing the man, High Court judge Mavis Chionh rejected the prosecution’s submission for a jail term of 32 to 36 years.