Going by the name “Lucifer”, this devilish man preyed on a 12-year-old schoolgirl he met through a mobile phone messaging app, engaging her in sexually-charged conversations.
Not long after, 40-year-old Lee Seow Peng drove her to a public car park at Chinese Garden and had sexual intercourse with her in the back seat of his vehicle.
The former crane operator has since been sentenced to 12 years in jail and nine strokes of the cane for statutory rape with consent, sexual grooming of a minor under 16 and the procurement of an indecent act from a child.
The New Paper reports that it was a sentence heavier than what the prosecution had called for — and Lee intends to appeal the sentence.
They had first met in 2012 through the messaging app, and the very next day after meeting, he asked her to be his girlfriend. Two days later, Lee suggested they meet up, picking her up near her school and taking her to Chinese Garden to carry out the misdeed.
Though the girl was said to have continued communicating with Lee in a positive frame of mind (she texted him “Goodnight, honey” hours after they had sex), the whole thing was uncovered after her mother discovered Lee’s messages in the girl’s phone. A police report was lodged after the girl told her what transpired.
Meanwhile, a transsexual man who did virtually the same thing to an underaged girl got all charges thrown out on grounds that the offender did not have a penis.
