A TEENAGER who cajoled a 13-year-old girl schoolmate into kissing him and performing oral sex on him was put on 15 months' probation on Tuesday.

The bespectacled 17-year-old admitted to the obscene act with the girl in the school toilet on the afternoon of Jan 18.

As part of the probation order, he has to stay indoors between 10pm and 6am, attend a 'positive adolescence' treatment programme and perform 100 hours of community service.

His parents also signed a $5,000 bond to ensure his good behaviour during the period.

The Community Court heard that the Secondary 3 student entered the victim's classroom next to his, and chatted her up and her classmates.

Later, he sat next to the girl and talked to her. Then he asked her to kiss him. She refused at first, but gave him a peck on the cheek when he asked her a third time.

He then asked her to follow him to the men's toilet, where he got her to give him oral sex in a cubicle for the handicapped.

Before putting the youth on probation, Community Court judge Bala Reddy had some stern words for the teenager's father, who had downplayed his son's offence and questioned the girl's moral values.

The judge said: 'You should not try and minimise the offence and say it is the girl's fault. He is the accused. We are addressing his offence here and whether or not there is prospect for him to be rehabilitated without him being sent to RTC or prison.'

He also told the boy's father that it was fortunate that the teenager was charged under the Children and Young Persons Act (CYPA), and not under the Penal Code, for which he would have been packed off to the Reformative Training Centre.

Under the CYPA, the accused could have been fined up to $5,000 or jailed for up to two years or both.

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