SINGAPORE: A man who was convicted and jailed more than 20 years ago for raping his daughter was on Wednesday sentenced to two years and nine months’ jail - this time for various acts committed against his granddaughters.
He cannot be named due to a court gag order to protect the identities of his victims, who also include the girl’s sister. They are now aged 17 and 18.The court heard that his older granddaughter would periodically stay over at his two-room Housing and Development Board flat in Tampines, TODAY reported.
The victim’s younger sister also began living with them. Court documents showed that sometime that year, he insulted the younger girl’s modesty by asking her for sex, TODAY reported. In 1999, he was convicted of two charges each of rape, molestation and carnal intercourse against the order of nature. The latter offence falls under the 1985 revised edition of the Penal Code that was repealed in 2007.At the time, 81 charges were taken into consideration for sentencing, reported TODAY. These comprised 63 of molestation, two of aggravated molestation, seven of rape, five of carnal intercourse, and two each of possessing uncensored films and obscene films.
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