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A 55-year-old man, who was accused of sexually assaulting his stepson when the younger man was between eight and 17 years old, was yesterday acquitted of 13 charges involving various sexual offences.
But he was convicted of two other charges, for stalking his stepson s girlfriend and for criminal intimidation by pointing a chopper at his wife and threatening to kill his stepson.
The man, a former supermarket storekeeper, was sentenced to a year s jail on these two charges. The jail term was backdated to Dec 3, 2018, when he was remanded in custody.
In clearing the man of the sexual offences allegedly committed between 2007 and 2015, High Court Judge Chua Lee Ming listed numerous and extensive inconsistencies in the stepson s account.