NTU scientist admits sending messages to arrange for commercial sex with children


Jason Scott Herrin was also found to have 31 obscene films and 90 photographs of child abuse after his phone was seized in August 2020. - ST

SINGAPORE: A scientist from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) sent messages to foreign mobile phone numbers in 2019 and 2020 in an attempt to arrange for commercial sex with children as young as 12 years old.

Jason Scott Herrin, 49, a principal research fellow at NTU at the time of the offences, was also found to have 31 obscene films and 90 photographs of child abuse after his phone was seized in August 2020.

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