Mother Charged For 'Knowingly Permitting' Pedophile Son To Rape Daughter

A 43-year-old mother has been charged with failing to protect her minor daughter from being raped by her son. She is also accused of intentionally covering up information about the sexual offenses committed against the girl.

The woman, based in Singapore, appeared in the court Monday before being charged under the Children and Young Persons Act, reported The Strait Times. The woman's identity was not revealed to protect the victim's identity.

According to the report, the woman's son was 13 when he started sexually abusing his five-year-old younger sister in 2010. He reportedly felt the urge to perform the acts depicted in pornographic animations that he watched online.

Seven years later in 2017, he raped his sister, who was then 12, while his mother and younger brother slept in the same bedroom. The incident came to light after the girl became pregnant. When their mother found out that her daughter was pregnant, she did not take her to the hospital as she feared her son would get arrested. Instead, she took the girl to a clinic in Malaysia for an abortion, but the doctor did not perform it, the report said.

The court was told that the woman allegedly knew from as early as 2010 that he was sexually abusing his sister. Between June and September 2017, the mother is said to have "knowingly permitted" her son to abuse her daughter.

Her son was arrested and tried at a court last year. He was then 22 years old and diagnosed as a pedophile. He pled guilty to one charge each of molestation and statutory rape and was sentenced to 11½ years' jail and seven strokes of the cane.

According to her son's court case, the woman allegedly noticed semen stains on her daughter's underwear in 2010 and asked her son if he had molested or "had sex" with the victim again. But, she did nothing to protect her daughter from him over the years.

The court also heard that the mother allegedly omitted to give any information about the sexual offenses committed against her daughter in 2010 and 2017.

If convicted of knowingly allowing the abuse of a child, the woman could face a prison sentence of four years and a fine of S$4,000 (USD 2,968.27).