Underage sex: Man jailed, girl now has a baby

Underage sex: Man jailed, girl now has a baby

A week after they met in 2009, a man took a teenage girl to a staircase landing in Bukit Batok Central, Singapore and they had sex.

The girl, then a month shy of her 16th birthday, gave birth to a boy in March last year, and is now caring for the baby.A paternity test has shown the accused is the baby's biological father.The unemployed man, aged 25, was jailed starting from May 10 for two weeks and fined S$8,000 ( RM18,720) for having sex with a girl below 16 in August 2009.He did not pay the fine and will thus serve four weeks in jail.Deputy Public Prosecutor Toh Puay San said the day the couple met through a mutual friend, the girl was in her school uniform. Over lunch, she told him she was 16.Source: The Straits Times/ANN
Published May 12 2011