Singaporean teacher who molested former pupil on three separate occasions gets more than two years’ jail

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SINGAPORE: A male teacher was sentenced to two years and six months’ jail on Thursday (Nov 21) for molesting his former pupil over three separate occasions – from when she was in Primary 5 in 2016 until she was in Secondary 1 in another school in 2018.

He was also ordered to pay her about S$560 in compensation and will have to spend an additional week behind bars if he fails to fork out the amount.