A man who had sex with an underage Vietnamese girl in return for a $150 payment was jailed for four months on Monday.
Han Yam Meng, 35, had admitted having commercial sex with the 17-year-old girl at Min Wah Hotel in Geylang on June 15 last year.
A district court heard that the senior technical engineer met the victim at a pub in Geylang Road on June 14.
While chatting, she told him that she was 19.
A member of the staff at the pub approached her and asked for her passport. She was told to leave as she was underage.
She then went to a coffeeshop where Han later approached her and asked again for her age. She said she was 18 and he took her word for it.
He then asked if she wanted to go to a hotel with him. She agreed. They checked into a room at Min Wah Hotel for sex.
They were subsequently arrested as they were leaving the hotel together.
He could have been jailed for up to seven years and fined for commercial sex with a person below 18 years old.
Source: ST Online
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