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A 37-year-old man who cultivated a social media following as a 'religious influencer' has been sentenced to 27 years and 10 months in jail for the sexual abuse of two brothers whose parents were largely absent from their lives.
A 40-year-old Singapore man has been charged with two counts of child ill-treatment following allegations he ordered his 10-year-old son to strip and ride a lift naked, and punched his eight-year-old daughter at Changi Airport.
A 47-year-old Singapore man has been sentenced to three weeks in jail after pleading guilty to assaulting his girlfriend at Lucky Plaza. The incident, captured on video, sparked widespread media coverage across the region.
An Indonesian domestic worker has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Singapore for suffocating her employer's 73-year-old father with a pillow. The killing followed accusations of theft and financial desperation from scams.
A 66-year-old man in Singapore has been sentenced to 12 years and 11 months imprisonment for sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy over a three-year period, with the court imposing additional jail time in place of caning.
A Singapore court has sentenced a 22-year-old man to over nine years in prison and 12 strokes of the cane for sexually abusing two teenage girls after posing as a younger person online. He also faced charges related to scams and harassment.