Teacher in S’pore sent sexually explicit text messages to underage male student

The 64-year-old man, who cannot be named owing to a gag order to protect the victim’s identity, was sentenced to three weeks’ jail on Oct 12 after he pleaded guilty to one count of having sexual communication with a minor below 16 years old. — Image by Racool_studio on Freepik

SINGAPORE: A secondary school teacher who got to know one of his male students in 2020 started sending the boy sexually explicit text messages two years later.

Feeling sexually exploited, the 15-year-old victim alerted the police in February 2023.