He told her that he was taking her to meet his gambling friends in Mandai and drove her into the forested area of Lorong Asrama off Mandai Road one night in September 1996.
There, Tan Leng Hwa, 42, asked the 16-year-old student to be his girlfriend. She turned him down and he molested her. He took away her spectacles leaving the girl unable to see clearly. He pulled off her clothes and caressed her breasts. She managed to break free. Totally nude, she ran into the bushes.
He was unable to find her and drove off. Only then, did she come out. In the utter darkness, she was unable to find her clothes. Covering herself with the pages of a discarded newspaper, she ran to the main road. The driver of the first car she tried to stop ignored her. She then tried to seek help at a gate of an army camp but it was unmanned.
She only managed to stop a taxi more than an hour later. She used his shirt to cover herself for the drive to a police post. A medical checkup later revealed multiple bruises all over her body and she was awarded three days' medical leave.
Tan surrendered himself to police 16 days later and was charged in court in March 1997. He jumped bail two months later and went into hiding.
It is not known when he fled to Malaysia but there he participated in a kidnapping. He and three Malaysian accomplices were arrested in January 2010 and jailed for the offence of wrongful confinement.
Tan, now 58 years old, was extradited to Singapore in July 2011. He pleaded guilty on Tuesday to committing aggravated molest on the student and for jumping bail. He also admitted to stealing a car valued at $60,000 in April 1998. This charge was taken into consideration by District Judge Lee Poh Choo when she sentenced Tan to jail for four years for molest and two months for going into hiding.
source: ST ONLINE
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