Chitchat Guess the race:Pizza deliveryman on trial for rape of 16-year-old girl

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SINGAPORE: A pizza deliveryman who allegedly masqueraded as a police officer and raped a 16-year-old girl in October 2013 went on trial in the High Court on Tuesday (May 24).

Muhammad Firman Jumali Chew, 30, allegedly saw the girl and her boyfriend behaving intimately at the staircase landing of a Woodlands block on Oct 9, 2013. He stopped the couple and demanded they produce their identity cards, telling them he was a police officer, prosecutors said.

Worried that Firman would report their actions to their parents and school, the couple, both 16, said they complied. Firman then led the girl away from her boyfriend and asked her what she would give him in return for keeping silent. The teen offered Firman money for helping her, but he raped her instead, prosecutors said.

Firman denied the rape and two other charges for sexual assault and impersonating a police officer, despite the fact that his semen was found on the victim’s clothes and panties.

The prosecution is expected to call on a witness who heard a male voice say “officer” and saw Firman walking away with the victim on Oct 9. The witness also came across the victim’s boyfriend “pacing nervously” on the ground floor of the block. The pair then searched for the victim for an hour but to no avail, the prosecution said.

The girl’s boyfriend, who is also expected to testify, eventually found her at Woodlands Bus Interchange with Firman. A family friend of the victim, who was also at Woodlands Bus Interchange, is expected to testify the girl was “scared, distraught and sobbing”, said prosecutors.

According to the victim’s family friend, the teen said Firman had raped her and that she had not struggled as she had been in “a state of fear” and did not want Firman, whom she believed to be a police officer, to tell her parents about her relationship with her boyfriend.

The prosecution added Firman’s mobile phone was sent for forensic analysis upon his arrest, and records show he had researched rape and


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