Yahoo! News Singapore, 30 Jul 2012Former Singapore Environment Council (SEC) executive director, Howard Shaw, has been sentenced to 12 weeks' jail for having sex with an underaged prostitute.
The scion of the prominent Shaw family, 41, was sentenced on Monday at the Sub Courts, but his lawyer Harpeet Singh said he would be appealing the sentence.
Shaw pleaded guilty to paying for sex with the girl in October 2010 at Hotel 81 Bencoolen and was convicted in June.The girl, who was 17 at the time of the act, cannot be named due to a gag order imposed by the court. Full story
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