Teacher sacked for meeting IRC girl
 

appeared in today's sunday times.. anyone has the report?

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Do you mean this report?

"A BASKETBALL coach has been sacked from two primary schools after he appeared in last week's Sunday Times article 'You're 13? What's your bust size?' on the issue of adult men who prey on young girls over the Internet.
The man - known only as Josh - was one of several who made lewd suggestions to a Sunday Times reporter who was investigating the dangers young girls face online.

Posing as a 13-year-old girl, the reporter received invitations to check into hotels and 'cuddle'.


The basketball coach, who looked about 30, was among three who arranged a rendezvous with the reporter.

In their online conversation at the 'teens' Internet Relay Chatroom, Josh said he wanted to meet the reporter to 'cuddle a bit'.

In his text messages, he invited her to his home and said he wanted to 'eat' her up.

When the reporter identified herself on meeting him, he quickly changed tack and said he was recruiting girls for his basketball team.

Although his face was digitally masked in the newspaper, teachers at a school where he worked as a coach thought the person in the photo looked familiar and reported the matter to the principal.

The school contacted The Sunday Times on Tuesday.

On Thursday, the principal asked him point-blank if he was the man in the article and said he 'readily admitted' he was.

She then told him that his contract would be terminated with immediate effect. According to her, Josh did not protest.

Although the pupils under his care said he had not contacted them outside school, the principal was not willing to take chances.

'He is working with young girls and we have to protect them. We don't want to expose them to someone who could lead them astray,' she said.

Josh was hired six months ago after he answered the school's tender notice in geBIZ - the government site used by the public sector to procure services. He was interviewed by a school head of department.

Registered with the Basketball Association of Singapore (BAS), he has attended technical and theory coaching courses organised by the Singapore Sports Council and the BAS.

When contacted for comment, BAS general manager Hans Goh said it has yet to decide whether to take Josh off the register.

Asked if it will disseminate information about him to schools, he said: 'Informing schools would mean we're pinning the crime to the person, and we won't want to do that. But if schools want to terminate his contract, they are just doing a preventive thing.'

Mr Goh added that the association will not recommend him to any school.

When The Sunday Times contacted Josh, he stuck to his story that he was recruiting basketball players. He confirmed that two schools had sacked him but declined to give details.

He said the comments on cuddling were made because he 'didn't want a slut' in his team. "

Re: Teacher sacked for meeting IRC girl
 

come to tink abt it, is there any crime/offence commited if civil servant engaged in commercial/legal sex services?

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damn..now going to irc also dangerous,dun knw if the other party is fake or not.

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Me thinks the poor guy's career as a basketball coach is close to over. Maybe can only coach in an all boys school. When the report first came out, I already thought, this basketball coach kenna alredi - skali, really kenna. Swaaay swaaay, his colleagues in the school recognise his body shape. poor thing.... just looking for cheap thrills ... kenna career condemned instead.:(

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Bro Jie_Gun, wasn't there this movie (I think it was inspired by a true story) about this guy befriending a girl from the IRC, met up with her, brought her back to his house and then he kenna tight up and nearly got his didi cut off by this young girl who apparently was out for revenge.

Indeed, IRC is definitely a dangerous place ..... SB forum is definitely much safer. :cool:

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nowaday irc still considering a best place to cheong if u r unable to get ur target in real life....am i right to say that??

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bor muse, yes there is such movie and the guy was actually rape her fren or sumting. the title was by a gal name, i cant remember. she was out to revenge.

anyway, cautious in IRC. u nvr know who/IT u r meeting.

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Its not an offence per se. But it sets a bad example to students. In this case, fear of him approaching the students.

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his colleagues also very interested to know ler.. :o

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Totally agree with you bro. I have heard time and time again. Or even other msg tools. However, IRC is almost a dying tool.

Thus, a person should use multiple streams of ways to know girls/dates/friends/flings.

Nowadays, female teachers teaching in school are young and sweet. Know a couple of them & they are not as simple minded as we think. They club, they drink,etc.

Probably, he have heard from his fellow mates or students, they uses IRC to know the gal and thinks those gal are dumb and innocent.

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Just typical of anybody ... not
just Sporeans, to be kpo. Need to worry lah, we talking about minors here :(

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Actually, what I'm interested in is whether the female reporter really looks like a 13 year old. Didn't see her face properly. I suspect the report was deliberately 'spiced up' by her. Usually, potential paedophiles only go for very young girls. Anything who looks above 20, they will reject.

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Please lah, got meat will reject meh?