By Vanessa Paige Chelvan
21 Nov 2017 01:08PM (Updated: 21 Nov 2017 03:55PM)
SINGAPORE: A 59-year-old rope skipping coach is on trial for allegedly raping a 13-year-old student repeatedly at his Tampines home in 2008 and 2009.
Roger Yue Jr, then the president of Rope Skipping Singapore, is also accused of sexually assaulting the teenager on multiple occasions, including once with a skipping rope, and making the girl perform oral sex on him.
At the opening of his trial on Tuesday (Nov 21), Yue denied the seven charges against him, including two for rape and five for sexual penetration of a minor.
Another 41 charges against him will be dealt with at a later date.
The victim, who testified against Yue behind closed doors on Tuesday morning, cannot be named due to a gag order.
Yue allegedly sexually abused the teenager over two years, from 2008 until 2010, when she “finally stopped associating with him”, Deputy Public Prosecutors Winston Man and Nicholas Lai said.
The prosecutors said the victim will testify that she met the coach in 2005, when he started to coach her school’s rope skipping team.
Yue subsequently invited the victim to join his “private" competitive rope skipping team known as the Jumping Jewels, and also sought her help to coach several other skipping teams, the prosecutors said in an opening statement.
“It was in the context of this relationship with the victim that (Yue) committed the offences against (her) at his now defunct studio, at his home in Tampines, and at (a secondary school),” they told the court.
The victim lodged a police report against Yue four years later in April 2014, after confiding in her polytechnic lecturer and counsellor.
The prosecutors will call on 15 witnesses to prove their case against Yue.
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Sentence him to maximum time to jail . Let the immates inside the prison take good care of him . Really a sicko.