Underage sex involving 14- to 16-year-olds on the rise
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SINGAPORE: The number of teenage girls engaging in underage sex rose last year, even as the authorities scored a success in reducing the number of younger girls from doing so.
The latest police figures showed there were 198 cases of sexual penetration involving a girl aged below 16, last year. This was 10 more than in 2009.
However, the number of cases last year was an improvement from the figures in 2008, which saw 249 cases.
The police said that most of the time, these girls were having underage sex with men known to them, usually their boyfriends or friends.
In one such case at the Subordinate Courts last month, Muhammad Shafiq Abdul Ghani, then 20, pleaded guilty to having consensual sex with a 14-year-old girl between late February and early March, last year. The District Court heard the girl had initiated sex as she wanted to "have his child" which Muhammad Shafiq agreed.
Now 21, he was spared jail and fined S$4,000. District Judge Eddy Tham felt the girl's "active initiation" where the offender was below 21 was a sentencing consideration. Prosecutors have appealed.
However, statutory rape cases - for girls under 14 - went down.
Compared to 2009, last year saw a 40 per cent drop in the number of cases.
Deputy Superintendent (DSP) William Goh, said the police has been delivering talks on teenage sex and the law to students from secondary schools and junior colleges, as well as training teachers so that they can raise awareness on the issue.
"Since 2009, the police have extended such talks to social service networks, with the objective of widening the reach to create a greater awareness of the legal and social consequences of teenage sex," he added.
Mr Yusof Ismail, chief executive of Ain Society, which works with troubled youth, suggested the authorities could extend these talks to primary school students as he was now seeing children, aged 12 to 14, becoming sexually active.
He said: "If we want to bring numbers down over the next five years, we should consider extending efforts upstream."
Clinical psychologist Carol Balhetchet suggested using role models, such as celebrities, to deliver the abstinence message.
"Families could help in spreading the right values but parents sometimes don't touch on the subject because it is awkward," she added
Agreeing, DSP Goh said all stakeholders, including the community, schools, parents, and media have an important role to play in educating youth against underage sex.
"Care should be taken by families to observe changes in the behaviour or activities of the young as most of the perpetrators in such cases are known to the victims," he added.
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to solve these problems....................must know the root of the problem................
young girls now initiate sex.......................becoz they horny....................
so schools should now give out free vibrators and dildoes for Sec 1 girls..................
i'll volunteer to help the girls by a live demo on a girl.....................
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Arent they taught about sex education in secondary school? At most school should teach them how to use condom for safer sex so as to prevent unwanted babies.
Anyway, does anyone know whether condom can be purchase under the 16?
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Originally posted by Asromanista2001:
to solve these problems....................must know the root of the problem................
young girls now initiate sex.......................becoz they horny....................
so schools should now give out free vibrators and dildoes for Sec 1 girls..................
i'll volunteer to help the girls by a live demo on a girl.....................
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Originally posted by Asromanista2001:
to solve these problems....................must know the root of the problem................
young girls now initiate sex.......................becoz they horny....................
so schools should now give out free vibrators and dildoes for Sec 1 girls..................
i'll volunteer to help the girls by a live demo on a girl.....................
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This issue certainly need to be resolved soon.