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The High Court has dismissed a civil suit against the Attorney-General, a deputy attorney- general and five prosecutors by a Malaysian drug runner who was spared the death penalty last year.
Justice Chua Lee Ming granted the defendants application to strike out Gobi Avedian s suit last Thursday, saying his claim was unsustainable.
The defendants are the office of the Attorney-General, current Attorney-General Lucien Wong, deputy attorney-general Hri Kumar Nair, deputy chief prosecutor Mohamed Faizal Mohamed Abdul Kadir, and prosecutors Tan Zhongshan, Nicholas Wuan, Chin Jincheng and Chong Kee En.
Gobi, through his then lawyer M. Ravi, had sued the defendants and deputy attorney-general Lionel Yee in November last year. The suit against Mr Yee was later dropped.
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SINGAPORE: A tutor who sought other men on social media applications for sexual activities preyed on minors instead, meeting a 13-year-old boy on Grindr and persuading a 15-year-old boy into experimenting with him.
Chock Soon Seng, 43, pleaded guilty on Monday (Mar 15) to four counts of sexual penetration of a minor. Another 14 charges, including sexual exploitation of a child or young person, will be considered in sentencing.
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The court heard that Chock was a freelance tutor teaching Mandarin to students in Primary 5 to Secondary 4 at the time.
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A former primary school teacher who has been in and out of jail over sexual crimes involving underage boys committed a string of offences after his last release from prison.
Chock Soon Seng, now 43, pleaded guilty in a district court yesterday to four counts of sexual penetration involving two of three underage boys he had met in 2018 and 2019.
Fourteen other charges involving the teenagers and the third victim will be considered during sentencing.
Chock was first sentenced to 10 months jail in 2010 after he tried to persuade two 13-year-old boys to let him watch them perform a sexual act.
In 2014, the Singaporean was sentenced to three years jail for offences including sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy and threatening to put his naked pictures online.