The court heard that Aslam chanced upon the boy’s profile on Grindr in mid-January last year. The boy cannot be named due to a court order to protect his identity. He noted that they had engaged in paid sex too. The Singaporean pleaded guilty on the same day to one count of sexual penetration of a minor and one count of making an obscene film.įive other similar charges were taken into consideration for sentencing.Īslam’s lawyer, Mr Nichol Yeo, said in mitigation that his client - a single father of three children - had no reason to suspect that the boy was a minor. On Friday (July 26), Aslam, 41, a former professional horse-racing jockey, was sentenced to one-and-a-half years’ jail. The boy, who is now aged 15, had lied about his real age when Aslam asked him about it on Grindr.
The man then found himself in trouble when the boy’s father called the police a few days later, saying his son was just 13 years old. SINGAPORE - Tricked into thinking that the youth he met on gay dating application Grindr was 17 years old, Malik Erasmus Aslam agreed to pay him S$130 for sex.
