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7 months’ jail for married man who told lies to 16-year-old girl to get sexual favours

SINGAPORE — An aviation logistics officer deceived a teenager into believing that he had a video of her performing a sex act on him, in order to get more sexual favours from her.

Mohamed Shalihin Mohamed Hafidz, 24, was sentenced to seven months’ jail for committing an offence of criminal intimidation.

Mohamed Shalihin Mohamed Hafidz, 24, was sentenced to seven months’ jail for committing an offence of criminal intimidation.

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SINGAPORE — An aviation logistics officer deceived a teenager into believing that he had a video of her performing a sex act on him, in order to get more sexual favours from her.

This was after she refused to continue seeing him, having found out that he had lied about being single when he was really married with two children then.

On Monday (Dec 10), Mohamed Shalihin Mohamed Hafidz, 24, was sentenced to seven months’ jail for committing an offence of criminal intimidation.

The girl cannot be named due to a court order.

Shalihin is now a father of three children aged one to four, with a fourth child expected to be born in February next year.

When his wife was pregnant with his third child, he downloaded an online dating application in March last year and got acquainted with the girl, then 16.

He used an alias as he did not want his wife to find out about his activities.

After getting to know each other, Shalihin and the girl exchanged nude photographs or videos of each other before he asked to meet her at a hotel.

Declining to go to a hotel, she invited him over to her home on June 8 last year and performed a sex act on him at his request.

The following morning, he told her that he is married with children and tried to cajole her into having a sexual relationship with him.

Upon knowing his marital status, the victim stopped replying to his phone text messages.

Around a week later, when Shalihin sent her a message again, she told him to think about his family and rejected his request. That was when he told her another lie, saying that his relationship with his wife was not doing well.

She again turned down his advances, but he did not back off.

Sometime between June 20 and 23 last year, he told her that he had a video of her performing a sex act on him, adding that he would only delete the video if she did it again.

Fearful that he would circulate the video, she agreed to meet him that same day at the void deck of the housing block where her grandmother lived, and the two engaged in a sex act at a staircase landing.

Immediately after, he told her that there was no such video and that he had not filmed her at all.

Feeling disturbed, the teenager informed her counsellor about the incident and made a police report on July 15 last year.

Shalihin was arrested about three months later on Oct 24.

In sentencing him, District Judge Marvin Bay said that a deterrence sentence was necessary, adding that Shalihin had duped a gullible teenager by using a fictitious video to attain “his perverse objective”.

For committing the offence of criminal intimidation, he could have been jailed up to two years and/or fined.

 

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