In 2017, he tried to intimidate a 15-year-old student from another school into sending him nude pictures of herself.Other offences included two occasions on June 24 and Aug 25 last year, when he took videos of himself performing a sex act at a void deck.
Yesterday, the teen pleaded guilty to three charges of insulting the modesty of a woman and one charge each of possession of an obscene video and criminal intimidation.Deputy public prosecutor Genevieve Pang told the court the teen did not have any past offences and asked the court to call for probation and reformative training reports.In mitigation, the teen's lawyer Rajan Supramaniam said he was remorseful and was influenced by pornography and voyeurism videos.
He added the accused was from a single-parent family, and that his mother now checks his phone daily. He is awaiting enlistment into National Service, after getting his mother to write to the Ministry of Defence to ask for an earlier date."These acts must be sufficiently deterred in our classrooms so that no student will ever entertain thoughts about committing them," he said.But he noted the accused was still young and had a good prospect of rehabilitation.
For each count of insulting the modesty of a woman, the accused can be jailed up to a year, or fined, or both.For criminal intimidation, he can be jailed up to two years, or fined, or both.The teen is expected to be back in court on May 15.
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