Reformative training for teen who acted as lookout while two youths sexually assaulted drunk girl
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The 16-year-old boy who acted as a lookout will be detained in a centre to undergo a strict regimen that can include foot drills and counselling.
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SINGAPORE – A boy who acted as a lookout while two other youths sexually assaulted a drunk 13-year-old girl
This means that the 16-year-old boy, referred to as B1 in court documents, will be detained in a centre to undergo a strict regimen that can include foot drills and counselling.
He had pleaded guilty to helping another boy, B2, who raped the girl.
B1 also admitted to three other unrelated charges – one count each of theft, assault and voyeurism.
B2 was the victim’s boyfriend at the time, and he was also 16 years old when he was given a similar sentence in October.
Both Singaporean offenders cannot be named as they are below 18 years old. Court documents did not disclose details about the third youth and the outcome of his case.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Ng Jun Kai told the court that B1 had run away from a boys’ home before he met B2, the victim and a group of friends on Sept 1, 2023, at a Petir Road playground, where they drank alcohol.
The victim vomited and soiled her shorts after consuming more than two bottles of soju that evening. B2 also noticed that she was speaking gibberish and was drunk.
Three female friends then moved her to a staircase landing of a nearby multi-storey carpark and helped her change out of her shorts as she was unconscious.
B2 later asked the trio of female friends to go to a bus stop, while he, B1 and a male friend stayed behind with the victim.
Soon after, B2 and the friend asked B1 to keep a lookout, and the pair sexually assaulted the girl.
B1 later told them that police were nearby. The youths fled the scene, but officers managed to stop the male friend.
DPP Ng told the court: “When the male friend was asked by the police about what had happened, he (said) that he was just passing by the area with his friends when they saw the victim.
“The male friend claimed that he did not know the victim. The male friend was instructed by the police to call (B1 and B2) back to the carpark.”
B2, who returned to the location, denied knowing the girl.
B1, however, did not go back to the carpark as he had run away from a boys’ home and did not want to be found by the police.
In the theft case for which B1 was convicted, he was at a Bras Basah Complex bookstore when he stole two computer mice worth around $250 each on July 28, 2023.
The shop’s anti-theft alarm went off as he was leaving, and one of its employees found the devices on him. The police were alerted soon after.
In the second unrelated case, which took place on Jan 9, 2025, B1 slapped and punched a 12-year-old boy in school.
The younger boy had been accused of telling the school about B1’s vaping habit.
The third unrelated case took place in March. B1 was in a school restroom when he recorded a video of an 18-year-old male student’s genitals.
B1 later sent the clip to a friend before deleting it.
