By Selina Lum

THE High Court is deliberating over the appropriate punishment to be handed down to a pimp who had arranged for a teenage prostitute to have sex with a 55-year-old man.

This is the first case to come before the courts under a newly-enacted law to protect the young from sexual exploitation.

In August, China national Wang Minjiang was fined $8,000 by a district court for aiding Tan Chye Hin, 55, to obtain sexual services of a 17-year-old girl he had brought in from China.

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