HE PRESENTED himself as a 'medicine man' to a wheelchair-bound woman, and convinced her to let him check her teenage daughter for a 'ghost'.
But Al-Habib Sheih Haji Ismail Al Mahberoh, 55, went on to molest the 13-year-old in the toilet of her home.
Initially jailed for 10 months by a district court in July, he will now be behind bars for two years instead, following a successful appeal to the High Court yesterday for a harsher penalty to reflect the heinousness of his crime.
The girl, now 15, and her family cannot be named under a court order.
Al-Habib had approached the girl's mother in a shop, as she was talking to a friend about the stroke which left her wheelchair-bound. He said he could cure her, and gave her his name card.
On Nov 22, 2008, the woman called him to ask for his massage service. He turned up and, noticing her daughter, started talking to her mother about the girl being 'possessed' by a ghost. He then persuaded the woman to let him 'check' the girl in the toilet so he could 'remove the ghost'. He was initially sent to prison for 10 months for preying on girl, 13
Source: ST Online
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