Tuesday, 25 Aug 2020 07:53 AM MYT
SINGAPORE, Aug 25 — A 35-year-old male teacher began standing trial in a district court yesterday for molesting a male student, then aged 12, three times within a span of two days. The Singaporean man, who used to be the boy’s form teacher, allegedly committed the offences on June 15 and 16 in 2017. Two other charges — one of voluntarily causing hurt by grabbing the boy’s wrists and slapping his cheek, and another of exhibiting an obscene object by showing him a pornographic video on his MacBook laptop — have been stood down for the time being.― Putting his hand into the boy’s underwear to molest himDeputy Public Prosecutors Lim Ying Min and Eugene Lee will call nine witnesses to the stand, including forensic investigators, the boy — who will testify behind closed doors — and his mother.