Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Man jailed for commercial sex with underage prostitute

A man who paid $100 for sex with an underage Vietnamese prostitute was jailed for nine months on Tuesday.

Kum Chin Tiong, 57, then a land and estate executive with the Singapore Land Authority, pleaded guilty to having commercial sex with the 16-year-old sex worker at Meng Yew Hotel in Geylang in July 2011.

A district court head that Kum was at a pub in Joo Chiat Road in mid-July when the Vietnamese girl approached him. She told him she was 20 years old but he disbelieved her as she looked younger than that. She also refused to let him see her passport.

Despite that, he asked her for sexual services. The girl, who is now 17, quoted $100 for 'short-time' sex. They exchanged contact numbers.


In end-July, she called him on the phone. Subsequently, he met her at her lodging house, and they took a cab to the hotel where he paid her $100 for her services.

Kum, who has two children and whose divorce is pending, could have been jailed for up to seven years and/or fined for commercial sex with a person below 18 years old.

Source: ST Online

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