sex with underage girl bondage 1-year jail for
He had bondage sex with a then-15-year-old girl on two occasions after they first met via dating website OkCupid.
Former advertising director Kwek Chuan Shan, 35, who had explicitly stated on his profile that he was into "bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism" - or BDSM for short - was yesterday jailed for a year for having consensual sex with the underage girl.
He is the third of five men to be dealt with in court for offences involving the same girl.
Two others, Malaysian Jared Chan Yee Mun, 32 and Alan Lobaton Ramos, 26, a Mexican, were sent to jail earlier this month. (See report at left.)
Kwek pleaded guilty on Jan 6 to two counts of underage sex committed in his flat at Block 68, Redhill Close.
Five other charges for similar offences were taken into consideration during sentencing.
The court heard that in one of their sessions in early November 2012, Kwek tied the girl up with a rope before snapping pictures of her.
He also assured her that he would not circulate them. They had protected sexual intercourse.
He restrained the girl with handcuffs and spanked her with a wooden spoon in another session later that month. She later performed oral sex on him.
The incident came to light when a church friend informed the girl's father that sexually explicit photographs of her were circulating on the Internet.
Despite the kinky acts that Kwek had performed on the girl, District Judge Low Wee Ping said yesterday that there is no evidence that the convict had corrupted her.
Besides Kwek, she also had BDSM sex with Ramos.
'TROUBLED'
Before sentencing Ramos on Jan 15, Judge Low, who had harsh words for the girl, said that the court was "troubled by the conduct of this minor who seems to be very misguided" and had contributed to men having to face the law.
He added: "One would say she went to the Internet to groom offenders like (Ramos), rather than the other way round.
"One can say precisely that this provision was intended to protect minors like this. But one wonders whether when this punishment was calibrated, if any concern was given to these sort of minors. I'm inclined to think that it is to protect very innocent minors."
Yesterday, the judge also recognised that Kwek was not in a position of trust with the girl.
In mitigation, his lawyer, Mr Amarjit Singh pleaded to the judge to sentence his client to between eight and 10 months' jail.
The lawyer also stressed that Judge Low had sentenced Ramos to 10 months' jail.
However, the judge pointed out that Ramos is 10 years older than the girl while Kwek is 19 years her senior.
The age disparity in Kwek's case was therefore significant, he added.
For each count of having sex with the underage girl, Kwek could have been jailed up to 10 years and fined.
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