COURT statistics show that most cases of rape involve perpetrators known to their victims.
From June 2006 to December 2007, the High Court heard 12 cases of serious sexual crimes including rape, attempted rape and unnatural sex.
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Hows my farm.. and hows the crops! ;p i shall i return after i bask in my greatness somewhere else. kekek
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Originally posted by ChoCoChips:
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OVER a period of close to 10 years, a man first repeatedly raped his stepdaughters, then continued to brainwash them into having consensual sex with him.
The man treated the sisters as his sex slaves, manipulating them first with a supposed 'beauty ritual', and later with threats of exposure.
His offences came to light only last June, when the sisters' mother inadvertently discovered that her older daughter had had an abortion in August 2007.Upon discussing the situation with her younger daughter, the mother found out about the persistent sexual abuse.
The 42-year-old woman reported her husband to the police, and the man was arrested the next day.
Yesterday, he pleaded guilty to 13 charges of rape, aggravated rape and having sex with a minor. A further 74 charges were taken into consideration.
The High Court jailed the 45-year-old for 30 years and ordered that he be given 24 strokes of the cane, the maximum number allowed by law.
The girls' years of horror began in 1999, just four months after the man married their mother. The children were then aged 11 and 13.
He approached the girls individually and manipulated them into complying with his plans, preying on their youth and gullibility. He told them he knew a ritual that would make them prettier. While pretending to perform this ritual, he raped them.
The court heard that he first used this ruse on the older daughter. One morning in October 1999, he left their home, supposedly to take the girl to school. Instead, he took her to his mother's empty flat, where he pretended to perform the ritual and then raped her.
He told her not to tell anyone about it, especially her mother.
He pulled the same trick on the younger girl, stressing that her older sister had 'taken it', and she had nothing to worry about. He told her that in order for the ritual to work, she must keep it a secret. He added that she had to continue with the ritual until she got married.
The sisters believed in the ritual and felt compelled to continue having regular sex with him. They later told psychiatrists that he said he would physically and verbally abuse their mother if they rejected his advances.
The man also took photos and videos of his stepdaughters in the nude and threatened to circulate the images.
While the abuse was going on, the younger daughter cut her wrists, a form of self-harm that experts say is intended to relieve emotional pain.
Yesterday, Deputy Public Prosecutor Shahla Iqbal urged Justice Tay Yong Kwang to impose a deterrent sentence.
She said the man had abused his position in the household and carefully planned a 'devious scheme' that allowed him to repeatedly have sex with his young stepdaughters, now aged 20 and 22.
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Two shops at T3 shut due to slow salesAirport will help other retailers by launching promotions, on top of other aid schemes
By Karamjit Kaur, Aviation Correspondent HIT by declining sales, two of the 37 shops located in the public area at Changi Airport's Terminal 3 have closed.
Artisans d' Angkor, which sold Cambodian artefacts, and Goldheart Jewellery packed up and left about two months ago.
To stop more businesses from closing shop, the airport is set to launch another marketing blitz, after spending more than $2.5 million last year to promote T3 as a shopping and dining haven.
Since the new terminal opened in January last year, retailers have complained of slow business. The facility has twice as many shops in the public area compared to Terminals 1 and 2 combined.
But T3 is less well-known to visitors than the other terminals, adding to the lack of customer traffic.
With only a handful of carriers operating out of the new terminal, which was built to handle double the traffic it currently does, there is also less activity.
Given the current travel downturn, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) wants to help boost sales and has planned several promotions to run throughout the year.
The first, which will run from Feb 26 to the end of April, will help spread the word that 28 of the retail outlets at T3 are offering GST-free shopping.
Apart from the usual banners and newspaper advertisements, 300,000 fliers will be dropped into mailboxes at housing estates in the east.
Each will come with a $5 coupon to be spent at the airport. Newspaper ads will also have the coupons, but with stipulated conditions.
There will also be weekly lucky draws with six winners in total - each walking away with $500 worth of shopping vouchers.
These promotions are on top of other assistance schemes, such as a 15 per cent rental discount that is already in place.
Many retailers welcomed the ongoing publicity and marketing efforts by CAAS.
'The various proactive airport programmes have improved sales, especially over the Christmas period,' said Mr Ken Tse, managing director of cosmetics and perfume chain Nuance-Watson.
'We are also driving sales at our three perfume and cosmetics shops in the public area with special buys for Singaporeans, which have been very successful.'
While overall takings for the company grew last year compared with takings in 2007, business has slowed in the last four months.
The Straits Times understands that some of the retailers have asked for further cuts in rent.
When asked about this possibility, a CAAS spokesman said: 'In view of the current economic downturn, we are closely monitoring the retail situation at the airport.'
CAAS also said it would gauge the success of the no-GST initiative at T3 before deciding whether to extend the scheme to food and beverage outlets there.
If necessary, the no-GST scheme could also be extended to retail outlets at the other terminals, it added.
waiting for fifi to save T3
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i go eat lunch
i love my quietkey keyboard woots
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hi
i am back on tella furma
woots
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dun feel like having dinner
so unappetizing =\
i go eat ice cream :3
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i am now feverish, aching body and having a diarrhoea
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Originally posted by laurence82:
i am now feverish, aching body and having a diarrhoea
food poisoning!
charcoal tablets?
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i dun have
any other cure?
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Originally posted by laurence82:
i dun have
any other cure?
charcoal?
OH OH MY GOD I ACTUALLY FORGOT ABOUT THIS
BURNT TOAST
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brb
i go toilet
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burnt toast helps ?!?!
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Originally posted by ä¸�如就æ»:
burnt toast helps ?!?!
i think so
someone told me this one
cos burnt toast is carbon also mah
but charcoal tablets are activated carbon... so i'm not sure. Try? :P
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haha .. like that also can ..
might as well go eat bbq better .. a lot of carbon ..
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Besides, when you have food poisoning, bread is supposed to be one of the foods you should eat...
hehehhee
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Originally posted by ä¸�如就æ»:
haha .. like that also can ..
might as well go eat bbq better .. a lot of carbon ..
cannot lar
bbq a lot of oil right? heehee
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i was just joking ..
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i am back
nuthing came out
i need TLC
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oh :X
i go tidy up my room...
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. Carbon Dioxide is also another form of carbon. -
stupid idiot