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Singapore doing more to keep child sex offenders from
making same mistakes
Corrective training is usually imposed on repeat offenders
I'm not inclined to think that paedophiles 'make mistakes' that get them into trouble. They are evil and do what they do, generally, intentionally. There are those who abuse children out of drunkenness but are not genuine paedophiles. I don't count them as being any better.
Jean Iau
PUBLISHED AUG 15, 2021, 5:00 AM SGT
SINGAPORE - For a number of years, former primary school teacher Chock Soon Seng taught Chinese to primary and secondary school students as a freelance tutor.
But he had a dark secret - the 43-year-old was convicted twice for sexually abusing boys.
He was jailed for 10 months in 2010, when as a primary school teacher, he tried to persuade two 13-year-old boys to let him watch them perform a sexual act. In 2014, he was sentenced to three years' jail for offences that included sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy and threatening to put his naked pictures online.
The tutor struck again, abusing two underage boys, and in April this year, he was sentenced to six strokes of the cane and eight years of corrective training for four counts of sexual penetration.
Corrective training is usually imposed on repeat offenders, without the usual one-third remission for good behaviour.
The case is the latest to throw light on the sentencing and rehabilitation regimes of sexual offenders who target children, and comes amid a report in January that showed 2,798 victims below 16, and 1,000 victims between 16 and 20 years old, were sexually assaulted from 2017 to 2019.
The courts have handed out stiff sentences to offenders diagnosed as paedophiles who were assessed to have a high risk of reoffending.
Recalcitrant offender Kelvin Lim Hock Hin was in 1997 jailed for 40 years for luring five boys aged between eight and 13 into having sex with him. PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
The landmark case saw the Court of Appeal rule that in future cases, chronic paedophiles who are shown to be unable or unwilling to control themselves, and who target children as victims should be sentenced to life imprisonment.
In 2015, Malaysian engineer Yap Weng Wah was sentenced to 30 years’ jail and the maximum 24 strokes of the cane for sexually abusing at least 31 boys aged between 11 and 15. In all but one case, he either sodomised or had oral sex with them at his rental flat, in hotel rooms and toilets at shopping centres and swimming pools.
An IMH report found that he had hebephilia – a sexual preference for children generally aged 11 to 14 – and was assessed to have a high risk of reoffending.
There is much more to this article at the Straits Times.
Tougher penalties under proposed changes to law:
Scottish sex offender jailed for 26 incidents involving children
A 56-year-old man has been jailed for over 20 years after being found guilty
of historic sexual offences against children.
By Scott McCartney
Friday, 13th August 2021, 4:39 pm
Head was sentenced to 20 years and 12 weeks in prison. He was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life and made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Head assaulted the three children, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in Doncaster in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Speaking after the sentencing, investigating officer Alexandra Storey, said: “All three of the victims in this case were incredibly brave to come forward and report the horrific abuse they suffered at the hands of Stephen Head.
"I know that the original Investigating Officer Alison Shields is grateful to all of them for the support they have given during the lengthy investigation.
“We hope that the significant custodial sentence handed down to Head yesterday will provide his victims with some comfort as they continue on their journey of recovery.
“I also hope this result will give other victims of historic sexual abuse the confidence to talk to us.”
NZ child sex abuse couple committed 'worst possible violation'
8:53 am on 14 August 2021
Andrew McRae
The actions of a couple who teamed up to sexually abuse children aged between three and 14 have been described as sickening and depraved and offending that grossly violated society's norms.
Andrew Alan Williams, 54, Laken Maree Rose, 32, have been sentenced to long prison terms after appearing in the High Court in Rotorua on Friday.
Williams received a sentence of 23 years and five months, with a non-parole period of nine years and four months.
Rose was given 19 years and five months and she must serve of seven years and nine months before parole can be considered.
The now former couple were active within the equestrian world and the offending often took place either at their Cambridge property or further a field, including the home of one victim.
Williams was convicted on 56 charges involving seven children and Rose 55 charges relating to four children.
The multiple charges cover a range of offences (8th story on link) including rape, unlawful sexual connection, indecent assault and making objectionable publications.
Justice Muir said the scale of their offending was almost unprecedented.
"It is in fact difficult to imagine more egregious offending against children. Words such as sickening and depraved come readily to mind."
He said the two worked together and he quoted one text from Williams to Rose.
"Mr Williams; Be ages one to four, no talking. Rose; Yeah babe that's the ages I want and really you can just do whatever you want to them."
Justice Muir said all of the victims were highly vulnerable on account of their ages.
"The impacts of the offending are already apparent here in psychological trauma, attempted self harm, and feelings of parental guilt. The latter born of a belief, incorrect but nevertheless understandable that the parents concerned could have done more to protect their children. It may be many years yet before the full extent of the harm is identified. It can only be hoped infantile amnesia affords them some protection later in life."
The parent of one child read her victim impact statement in court, eyeballing both Williams and Rose at times. She spoke of the devastating effects the crime has had on her family.
"Taking your child to a rape examination is an experience I wish on no other parent. Done so incredibly kindly. You would almost think you were there for a routine check up, except you as their parent know why you are there and that gravity sits over you like an uncomfortable, hot, heavy jacket."
She said it has left her with so many unanswered questions. "What could I have done differently. Why did I not hear something. Why did I not see. Why my child?"
She said the innocence of the children was so casually taken. "I will never understand Mr Williams why you did not seek help. Rather you chose to destroy and violate our children instead. I will never understand how you, an adult female Ms Rose put these precious, beautiful, innocent trusting children in a dangerous predators hands."
She described what the two did as nothing short of monstrous.
Speaking outside of court, Detective Sergeant Darryl Brazier from the Child Protection Team described it as a complex and difficult investigation that had a huge volume of distressing material.
"The offending by Rose and Williams has had a horrendous impact on the victims and their families. While nothing can reverse the terrible ordeal the victims and their families have suffered, I hope that the sentencing today helps provide a small measure of comfort to them."
Detective Sergeant Brazier said it was the worst possible violation of children that can be imagined.
He said it was highly unusual for a woman to be involved. "Very seldom in history I think have we seen a female who was involved with so much offending as a principal offender, as opposed to a party. Well, Rose was a principal offender, so she was not only grooming these children but she was actively participating in the violation of some of them."
He was in no doubt that had the families not come forward when they did, and the police act, the two would still be in the community offending against vulnerable children.
Nottingham doctor struck off medical register after being
caught out by paedophile hunters
His laptop also contained images of people performing sexual acts on live animals
ByJoseph Locker
Digital News Correspondent
10:26, 14 AUG 2021
A doctor who was caught by paedophile hunters has been struck off the medical register after being sentenced last year.
Doctor Joshua Ian Peake, who qualified in 2014 at the University of Nottingham and practised in Nottingham, was located and detained by an online child activist group known as TFN UK back in September 2019.
He was subsequently arrested and sentenced last year for his crimes, before being erased from the medical register during a Medical Practitioners Tribunal held in Manchester between August 11- 12 this year.
The tribunal chair, William Hoskins, determined Peake was unfit to practice and he was struck off completely from the register with immediate effect. The outcome was determined after the tribunal heard the facts of the case.
Following Peake's arrest on September 15, 2019, the police were informed that the TFN UK group had been talking to him online using the identity of a fictitious 14-year-old boy.
It was reported that Peake had been sending the fictional fourteen-year-old boy photos and videos, knowing that he was fourteen.
During the police interview, Peake acknowledged that on August 14 that same year he had started a conversation with the person, whom he believed to be called ‘Luke’, and he had wanted to see the boy naked, and the conversations culminated in Peake sending a short video showing him masturbating.
Peake's response to the police was that he had been intoxicated when he first entered into the conversations and stated from the photographs of 'Luke', he did not believe him to be under eighteen, although he confirmed that he had been told in the course of the dialogue that 'Luke' was fourteen.
When the police searched his property and electronic devices, officers discovered imagery depicting a child, together with 26 images of people performing sexual acts on live animals.
On August 19 last year, Peake was convicted of possessing an indecent photograph/pseudo-photograph of a child on three counts, possession of extreme images including the act of intercourse with a dead or alive animal as well as attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child.
He was also found guilty of causing a child between 13 and 15 to watch or look at an image of sexual activity.
On September 9, 2020, he was then sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court to a three-year community order, including 80-hours unpaid work, rehabilitation for 30 days and he was given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for five years.
His name was also placed on the Barring List by the Disclosure and Barring Service and he had to forfeit a laptop and Macbook and to pay a victim surcharge of £90.
During the most recent tribunal David Birrell, for the General Medical Council (GMC), submitted that Peake fitness to practice was impaired by reason of his conviction and said it was "very serious offending".
Mr Birrell said mitigating factors included the fact Peake had no previous fitness to practice findings and stated he pleaded guilty at Nottingham Magistrates' Court.
However, he told the tribunal he had also put forward a potential defence and said the public would be outraged if Peake was simply suspended from the medical register, rather than erased.
The tribunal verdict stated: "Accordingly, the tribunal has determined to direct that Dr Peake’s name be erased from the Medical Register.
"In the light of all the evidence presented to it, it is satisfied that erasure is the only proportionate sanction in his case."
UK man accused of 36 counts of child sexual abuse extradited to WA
By Marta Pascual Juanola
August 14, 2021 — 8.15am
West Australian authorities have extradited a 62-year-old man from the United Kingdom to Perth accused of committing 36 child sex offences while living in Australia in the 1980s.
Detectives allege the man sexually assaulted four teenage boys aged 13 to 15 in Como, Orange Grove, Sorrento and South Perth in the six years between 1983 and 1989.
He has been charged with ten counts of aggravated sexual penetration, nine counts of committing indecent practices between males, nine counts of carnal knowledge against the order of nature, five counts of aggravated indecent assault, and three counts of stupefying with intent to commit an offence.
Carnal knowledge against the order of nature was repealed as an offence in 1989.
The 62-year-old, who was flown back to Perth on Friday, will front Perth Magistrates Court via videolink on Saturday.
Footage released by police shows two detectives dressed in full PPE escorting the man out of Perth Airport and into the back of a police wagon.
If you are or have been a victim of sexual abuse, or if you have information about someone being abused, please contact police on 131 444.
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