Singapore: 3-year-jail sentence for ex-school badminton coach who had sex with minor student

A former secondary college badminton coach has been sentenced to jail for three years for participating in sex with a 15-year-old student.

The man, now aged 33, was dismissed from his job in June 2019 after the college authorities discovered him responsible of sending inappropriate texts to different minor college students.

As per reviews, he would touch upon ladies’ figures and quiz them about their personal lives.

The individual pleaded responsible to 2 out of three counts of sexual penetration of a minor beneath 16, Mothership reported.

He was handed the sentence on May 23, 2024.

Reports stated that the coach and the sufferer’s interplay started after she joined the college badminton group in 2017. They began following one another on Instagram and finally began chatting. Soon, the frequency of those chats elevated.

As their closeness developed, the person would take the sufferer out for meals sometimes.

A yr later, the coach would maintain arms with the sufferer in public and take pleasure in bodily intimacy, together with kissing her after they have been alone in his automotive.

“The accused’s care and a focus in the direction of the sufferer made her really feel particular. The accused instructed her that they might solely be in an ‘unofficial’ relationship as he was already married and the sufferer agreed to this association,” Mothership quoted the prosecutor as saying.

After the sufferer turned 15 in 2019, the person requested her if he might have sex with her, which she refused. However, the person’s persistence led her to comply with the proposal, finally.

Meanwhile, the college had initiated an investigation by then. Upon questioning a number of college students, the principal discovered two extra victims who acquired inappropriate messages from the coach. After the completion of the inner investigation, the person was fired from his job.

The sexual encounter with the coach left the sufferer depressed. In 2022, the sufferer reached out to her college counsellors for assist.

Hesitant at first, the sufferer lodged a police grievance on the counsellors’ request on July 27, 2022.

The man was arrested the next day. He finally admitted to committing the offences.