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Man blackmailed teen with obscene video and sexually violated him, fled S’pore for 10 years

SINGAPORE — He first posed as a woman online to secretly film a 14-year-old boy performing a sex act, then threatened to post the video clip online unless the boy went out with him.

  • Lim Leong Sze met a 14-year-old boy online in 2005
  • He tricked the victim into performing a sex act and filmed this through a webcam
  • He threatened to post the clip online unless the boy went out with him
  • When he was about to be charged, he fled Singapore

 

SINGAPORE — He first posed as a woman online to secretly film a 14-year-old boy performing a sex act, then threatened to post the video clip online unless the boy went out with him.

Lim Leong Sze later sexually abused him. When Lim was about to be charged in 2010, he fled Singapore and was only repatriated a decade later.

On Friday (June 18), Lim, a 57-year-old Singaporean, pleaded guilty to one charge of carnal intercourse against the order of nature. The offence falls under the 1985 revised edition of the Penal Code and has since been repealed.

Six other charges will be taken into consideration for sentencing at a later date.

They comprise criminal intimidation by anonymous communication, exhibiting an obscene film to a minor, outrage of modesty, sexual exploitation of a young person, and possession of an obscene film.

The victim, now aged 30, cannot be named due to a court order to protect his identity. He was a Secondary 2 student at the time he met Lim in September 2005.

WHAT HAPPENED

The court heard that Lim, who worked as a debt collector, had initiated a conversation with the victim on the online chat platform MIRC.

He told the boy that he was a Chinese woman in her 20s and the boy replied that he was 14 years old.

They soon moved to chatting on the MSN platform, where Lim asked the boy to show his face through the webcam.

The boy did so before Lim asked him to strip naked. He refused, saying his father was home and that he would do it later.

When the boy’s father left the house, he went back to chatting with Lim, who again requested to see his nude body and asked him to masturbate.

Thinking that Lim was a woman, the boy complied. Lim then secretly filmed him.

Afterwards, Lim told the boy that he had filmed him and that he would send the video to him as proof.

Lim also threatened to post the video online or tell the boy’s father unless he did it again.

After the boy acceded to Lim’s demands, he asked the boy to be his “brother” and go out with him. He agreed out of fear of Lim posting the video.

Later that day, they went to the Geylang area where Lim showed the victim the video clip and another obscene video, which he had saved in his mobile phone.

He then took the victim to his office along Guillemard Road near Geylang.

Lim soon got the boy to massage his back before sexually violating him.

When the boy told him that he was uncomfortable, they got dressed. Lim took him to a pub before sending him home, while also offering him a mobile phone and money.

The next day, the pair met online once more. Lim asked the boy to masturbate in front of the webcam again but he refused.

The boy reported the matter to the police two days later. Lim was arrested soon after, but fled Singapore in 2010 just before he was to be charged.

He was repatriated to Singapore by the Malaysian authorities on Feb 13 last year and has been in remand since then.

Those convicted of committing carnal intercourse against the order of nature can be jailed for life, or jailed for up to 10 years and fined.

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