Pls don't think it is nothing wrong being a paedophile. Research has shown is sick and you will go jail.
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Doing more to keep child sex offenders from making same mistake
Corrective training is usually imposed on repeat offenders. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: ST FILE
Jean Iau
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15 AUG 2021, 5:00 AM SGT
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SINGAPORE - For a number of years, former primary school teacher Chock Soon Seng taught Chinese to primary and secondary school students as a freelance tutor.
But he had a dark secret - the 43-year-old was convicted twice for sexually abusing boys.
He was jailed for 10 months in 2010, when as a primary school teacher, he tried to persuade two 13-year-old boys to let him watch them perform a sexual act. In 2014, he was sentenced to three years' jail for offences
that included sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy and threatening to put his naked pictures online.
The tutor struck again, abusing two underage boys, and in April this year, he was
sentenced to six strokes of the cane and eight years of corrective training for four counts of sexual penetration.
Corrective training is usually imposed on repeat offenders, without the usual one-third remission for good behaviour.
The case is the latest to throw light on the sentencing and rehabilitation regimes of sexual offenders who target children, and comes amid a report in January that showed 2,798 victims below 16, and 1,000 victims between 16 and 20 years old, were sexually assaulted from 2017 to 2019.
People who have committed serious offences, which include serious sexual offences against children, are required to undergo the mandatory supervision and aftercare support under the Mandatory Aftercare Scheme upon their release. Implemented in 2014, conditions include counselling sessions, curfews and electronic monitoring or tagging.
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Prior to the regime, some offenders could have been released without being subject to additional conditions.
Ms Arvina Manoo, senior psychologist and assistant director of the sexual violence unit at the Psychological and Correctional Rehabilitation Division of Singapore Prison Service, told The Straits Times: "Not all offenders who commit sexual acts against children present with paedophilia or mental health conditions."
While behind bars, people convicted of sexual offences against children may undergo a psychological assessment to determine their risk of reoffending and intervention needs.
The psychological intervention aims to help them address problems with interpersonal relationships, emotional regulation, and negative attitudes that support sexual offending.
They may also be referred to agencies in the community for further counselling and support after their release.
Dr Christopher Cheok, senior consultant and acting chief of the department of forensic psychiatry at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), said that medication to manage sexual arousal is available to those who display paedophilic tendencies.
"The use of these medications should be discussed with a doctor," he cautioned.
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Ms Arvina said that some key factors that are associated with the sexual abuse of children by adults include social difficulties such as social isolation, loneliness and deviant sexual fantasies.
"Apart from individual factors, situational and environmental factors can also play a key role in sexual offending against children. Proximity or easy access to children can facilitate offending. Other factors may include the development of unhealthy beliefs about children and sex through exposure to child sexual abuse material," she added.
Dr Cheok noted that there is a range of sexual desires. "For example, a person may not be exclusively a paedophile; he may be aroused by either adolescents or adults," he added, noting that most paedophiles are male.
"A paedophile may also just have fantasies regarding pre-pubescent children without assaulting any victims. A sex offender who preys on children, on the other hand, is someone who acted on a victim and who has been caught.
"It is also important to know the level of distress experienced by the person arising from his paedophilic desires, his personal value system and his ability to control himself. For example, would he have access to a potential victim within or outside the family, and if he does, would he be able to resist preying on the child?"
