S'pore man, 20, who had sex with 3 underage girls gets 7 years' jail & caning

A 20-year-old Singaporean man who had sex with three underage girls was sentenced to seven years' jail and six strokes of the cane on Nov. 10.

Muhamed Khairil Kapalee pleaded guilty to sexually penetrating two of the girls, who were aged 14 and 15 at the time.

He also admitted to a statutory rape charge involving a 12-year-old girl who cannot speak or hear.

Another seven charges, including theft, were taken into consideration during his sentencing.

Met first two victims online

According to court documents seen by Mothership, Khairil, then 18, got to know the first victim through Telegram on Dec. 7, 2023 and started an online relationship with her.

The girl was 14 at the time.

Two days later, she ran away from home after discussing it with him, and the pair met up.

They later had unprotected sex near Jalan Besar Stadium.

When he noticed her mother was tracking her phone, he threw the device down a rubbish chute.

He also lied to the mother, saying he did not know where the girl was, when she called him.

Relatives later found the girl, confronted him and alerted the police.

The police interviewed him on Dec. 21, 2023.

He had acknowledged that underage sex was wrong and said he would not do it again.

In January 2024, he met the second victim, who was 15, on Telegram.

She lived in a home for vulnerable and abused children at the time.

The pair had unprotected sex at a carpark that month.

After the home found out, police interviewed Khairil again in February 2024.

He volunteered that he knew she was 15 and that the legal age for consensual sex in Singapore was 16.

Incident with the third victim took place at KKH

In August 2024, Khairil met the third victim, aged 12, through mutual friends.

According to court documents, the victim also has a history of severe global developmental delay and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

The following month, she was warded at KKH for a suspected bacterial infection.

Khairil visited her, and they engaged in sexual activities in a toilet for the handicapped on the hospital's ground floor.

He was arrested on Sep. 25, 2024, charged two days later and has been in remand since.

The 12-year-old was seen at the Child Guidance Clinic of the Institute of Mental Health in May 2025.

Court documents said she "reported feeling sad, scared and angry and disgusted since the incident", and experienced insomnia, nightmares and recurrent thoughts of it.

Prosecution's submissions

The prosecution described Khairil as having "a deeply problematic history of engaging in sex with underage girls, many of them very vulnerable".

He committed serious sexual offences, including penetrative ones against vulnerable victims, between 2017 and 2019, and was placed on probation in 2020.

Barely a year after completing probation, he committed the new offences.

The prosecution said that although he was diagnosed with mild intellectual disability, his maturity was normative for his age at the time of the offences.

They sought seven to eight years' jail and six strokes of the cane, noting that "rehabilitative options have been offered and tried, but the Accused has failed to avail of them".