Jailed: Man who maintained 9-year-long sexual relationship with stepdaughter since she was 15

In an abnormally twisted case, a man was sentenced to jail yesterday for initiating a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl that lasted for nine years, even after he became the girl’s stepfather.

The Straits Times reported that the 52-year-old man was slapped with three-and-a-half years in prison after he admitted to three counts of carnal connection. Their names aren’t revealed to protect the victim’s identities.

The depraved trysts began in 2005 when the accused moved in with the girl’s mother after they started a romantic relationship sometime in 2004. On Dec 31, 2005, the couple went to the Esplanade to watch the New Year’s Eve fireworks together with the woman’s children. Reportedly, the man and the girl had a few alcoholic drinks but were not inebriated.

Later that night after everyone had gone to bed, the man, then 40, entered the room the teenage girl shared with her younger brother. The accused started touching and kissing her, and when she did not stop him, he had sex with her, ST reported.

The second time they had sex was sometime in January 2006. A tiff had erupted between the girl and her mother, and the man said that he would “pacify” the girl. What he did instead was enter the girl’s room, lock the door, and have sex with her.

The court heard that their consensual sexual relationship continued regularly until she was 24 — even after her mother and the man got married in 2010. Their sexual activities included having unnatural sex (anal intercourse in legalese), and at one point in time, the girl even had an abortion.

It was only in August 2015 that their affair was busted. The girl’s boyfriend found lewd messages in her mobile phone — messages that the accused sent whenever he wanted to have sex. On Aug 11, the girl’s biological father lodged a police report, believing that she had been sexually assaulted.

The accused could have been jailed up to five years and slapped with a maximum fine of S$10,000 for each count of carnal connection with girls below the age of 16, under the Women’s Charter.



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