An alcoholic man was sentenced to 12 weeks’ jail yesterday for touching a 15-year-old girl in a park.
According to a report from The Straits Times, Tong Hor Tuang – who also stole a can of stout from a supermarket – approached the minor as she was chatting to a friend.
Tong told the two teenage girls to go home as it was already past 9pm, but the two girls ignored him. The 54-year-old then knelt in front of his victim and touched her thigh, before asking her and her 17-year-old friend to follow him to the nearby Toa Payoh Town Park public toilet.They refused.
Undeterred, he stood up, kissed the victim and touched her again. She shouted at him and ran away with her friend.
Tong – who has several previous convictions, mostly for theft – was arrested in Toa Payoh North two days after the Nov 12 incident. The court heard that he stole the can of stout from the NTUC FairPrice supermarket at Toa Payoh HDB Hub on May 6.