Question:
Ms Carrie Tan: To ask the Minister for Home Affairs in each of the past ten years (a) how many persons have been convicted of assaulting children; and (b) how many of the convicted persons are personnel of service providers to children such as schools, learning centres, tuition centres and enrichment centres.
Answer:
Mr K Shanmugam, Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law:
1. Between 2013 and 2022, there were 1,794 persons convicted of serious hurt offences, ill-treatment, and sexual offences, against children under the age of 16. Of these, about 2% were working in educational settings, such as schools, learning centres, tuition centres and enrichment centres, at the time of the offence.
2. The yearly breakdown is in the table below.
| |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
| (a) Number of persons convicted of serious hurt offences, ill-treatment, and sexual offences, against children under the age of 16 |
194 |
190 |
165 |
186 |
155 |
190 |
162 |
176 |
213 |
163 |
| (b) Number of persons from (a) who were personnel of service providers to children at institutions such as schools, learning centres, tuition centres and enrichment centres |
5 |
7 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
8 |
1 |
5 |
3 |
