Teacher jailed for lewd SMSes
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By Leong Wee Keat | Posted: 16 December 2010 1316 hrs
SINGAPORE: A former primary school teacher was on Thursday jailed 10 months by a District Court for sending a series of lewd messages to male teenagers to get them to commit indecent acts.
Thirty-three-year-old Chock Soon Seng committed the offences between 2008 and May 2009 when he was teaching at a government primary school, the Court heard.
He was single and had taught for the past six years at the time of the offences.
Chock met his first victim, a secondary two student, through an online chat portal in 2008.
Chock identified himself as "Alex".
A few days later, Chock sent the victim, then 13, a lewd message and suggested they perform an indecent act together.
The boy declined the suggestion but Chock repeatedly messaged the victim requesting to meet up.
Chock followed up with a video call asking the boy to perform a sexual act for him to see.
The boy hung up.
On October 2, 2008, Chock sent more than 40 SMSes in a final attempt to get the boy to perform the act via a video call.
Feeling disturbed, agitated and disgusted, the boy reported the matter to his mother and lodged a police report the next day.
Seven months later, Chock again attempted the same ruse on a secondary one student, who was studying at an adjacent school where the ex-teacher worked.
The boy reported the matter to the police and his school's discipline master.
Following a telephone conversation with the discipline master, Chock agreed to show up at a neighbourhood police post an hour later.
When confronted, Chock admitted sending lewd messages and apologised to the boy's parents.
In mitigation, Chock's lawyer, Mr Anthony Lim, said the former teacher was truly remorseful.
Chock did not target his own students nor did he persist after the victims blocked his calls, added Mr Lim.
The lawyer sought a week's jail and fine for his client.
But Deputy Public Prosecutor Edmund Lam said the former primary school teacher "led a double life of trying to defile the innocence of and corrupt young persons".
"He would have clearly known that procuring such acts over a video call (with) school children was clearly wrong and abhorrent," added Mr Lam.
Chock could have been jailed up to two years and fined S$5,000 for each of his two offences.
Chock has appealed against his sentence and is now out on S$20,000 bail.
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never show the sms text details? i see who more lewd those angie end me pms or their smses
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hohoho, he choked.
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minus the H and he's cock...
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
minus the H and he's cock...
liddat also can
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Teacher's ECA is very involving.
Why he is kept on as teacher after past offenses???
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Originally posted by mistyblue:
Teacher's ECA is very involving.
Why he is kept on as teacher after past offenses???
yellow ribbon
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Fail
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Only in Singapore..tsk..tskk.tsskk... -
Singapore BOLEH!
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gay.
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nowadays a lot of gay or sexually obssessed teachers teaching in schools.... LoL.
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Gay trend?
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Maybe 50 percent of the population should be gay.
They are just coming out in recent years with social norm liberalisation. -
Whenever I read of these type of crimes, CONFIRM 99% is Singapore.
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How many more MOE staff are going to pop up into the limelight one by one ?
Teaching staff and school staff have full access to students and can solicit sex from students. Seems that there is a lot of sex perverts in MOE (gay principal, MOE scholar who is addicted to child porn, films child porn and now this one).
It's a very bad image for MOE Singapore. Don't tell me there will be more sex offences coming up ?