A 63-YEAR-OLD rag and bone man who molested a 12-year-old boy on two consecutive nights was sentenced to 12 years' preventive detention on Friday.
This is not the first time Mohamed Sa'ad Ismail has been packed off to jail for sexual offences.
He was convicted of rape in 1975, and in 1999, sentenced to seven years' preventive detention for outraging the modesty of a 14-year-old scout. Preventive detention, which is up to 20 years, is meant for hard core offenders with no remission for good behaviour.
Describing Sa'ad as a menace to society, Deputy Public Prosecutor Sanjiv Vaswani said in his 35 years of criminal career, Sa'ad had eight convictions. More than 25 years of these were spent behind bars and he suffered 23 strokes of the cane. He had offended yet again, some three years after being released.
In the latest offences on Jan 14 and 15, he had lured the victim, who came from an unstable home environment, with money for food and LAN gaming, rides in his trishaw, and visit to a music studio.
While he was lying beside the victim on those two nights, he told the victim to remove his clothes before molesting him After each occasion, he gave him $10.
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I am dissapointed.... molesting a boy...
the world is full of weird people
63 + 12 = 75 lol
what are the odds he'll sleep in a wooden box while squatting inside?..
12 yrs? That will be 75 yr old when he come out, still can molest little kids.
Life sentences for him, that's the only option.
Hahahaha.
This kind will tend to be repeat offender.
So the boy finally realised that 10 is too cheap and decided to tell?