S'pore girl, then-16, repeatedly raped by stepfather, 43, tells family but they don't believe her
The victim was subsequently placed in a welfare home.
A 43-year-old man from Singapore, who repeatedly raped his 16-year-old stepdaughter, was sentenced to 22 years in prison and 24 strokes of the cane on September 1. The court heard that the offender pleaded guilty to four charges of rape but nine other similar charges were taken into consideration during sentencing. The man repeatedly assaulted the teenager not only in the back of his delivery van but also at their one-room flat while their family slept.
The victim's mother and siblings initially did not believe her accounts of abuse and she was placed in a welfare home. According to the court documents, the man lived in the same one-room flat with his 42-year-old wife and their six children, with the victim being their eldest. The family slept together in the same room with the offender having sole access to CCTV footage showing his abuse of the victim.
The man had installed two CCTV cameras in the flat, which he used to monitor the children. He also regularly sent her lewd text messages demanding sexual acts, threatening to confiscate her phone if she refused. When the victim missed her period, the man told her to eat pineapples to prevent pregnancy or induce a miscarriage. Despite the victim's reluctance to report the abuse, her boyfriend urged her to confide in her mother, who subsequently reported the matter to the school counselor.
The police proceeded to seize the man's phones, which contained recordings and screenshots of the CCTV cameras he had installed in the flat.
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