Singapore to mete out harsher punishment for sex crimes

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The government will also set up a panel to issue sentencing guidelines. FMTNews

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SINGAPORE: Singapore will increase penalties for some sex crimes, officials said today, after an outcry over students at elite universities being given punishments criticised as too lenient for attacks on women.

Another student from the same university was initially sentenced to probation for molesting a woman on a train. On Friday, Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam told parliament that “you shouldn’t be able to come to court to say you have a bright future, you will go far and so on”. For sexual activities in the presence of a minor between 14 and 16, including showing them a sexual image, or similar acts done in front of a minor between 16 and 18, the maximum sentence will be raised from one year to two years’ imprisonment.

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