SINGAPORE — Dubbing himself “Sean Romeo” and “Guardian Angel”, a former secondary school teacher who used fake identities to pick up two minors, and even got one of them to send him 57 nude photos and videos of herself, was on Friday (Oct 7) sentenced to 22 months’ jail and fined S$500.

Kuang Liang Yong, 47, who is married with two children, pleaded guilty to five charges: Three for procuring nude photos from his victim, one for stalking, and another for disorderly behaviour. Another 10 charges were taken into consideration during sentencing.

District Judge Terence Tay said that Kuang masqueraded himself to “advance a rather reprehensible agenda” in his sexual exploitation of a young girl.

“However, unlike Romeo of Verona, ‘Sean Romeo’ was purportedly stricken with erectile dysfunction due to a motor accident and could only recover from watching the pre-pubescent Primary 6 student perform a variety of indecent acts,” he added.

In 2012, Kuang found his first victim — who was then 13 — to be adorable and took a liking to her after he saw her at an arcade in Sun Plaza, Sembawang. She wanted to locate her missing phone and he lent his phone to her to dial her number.

He saved her number after that and sent her a text message using the name “Sean Romeo” later.

In August that year, Kuang claimed that he had been involved in an accident and was unable to have sex. He pretended to be a pitiful, impotent victim and sent her messages several times a day.

The victim sent him three nude photos of herself at first because she wanted to help him. Some time later, Kuang nudged her to send him more nude photos and videos of her performing a sexual act. The victim then sent him six photos and three videos.

These exchanges took place on 13 occasions over a nine-month period.

The last time Kuang contacted the victim was in December 2013 when he asked if he could have phone numbers of three of her female friends that he could give to his friends. When the victim declined, he stopped contacting her.

Separately, in early August last year, Kuang obtained his second victim’s phone number from a website. He trawled her social media profile and found out which primary school she attended. Kuang’s daughter and the victim, who was then 12, went to the same school. He had seen her when he picked his daughter from school.

He later gave the girl his number and told her to contact him. Once he got hold of her number, Kuang started chatting with her by text message, pretending to be a Primary 6 boy with the nickname “Guardian Angel”.

He persistently sent her messages saying that he loved her, and would keep track of the times she was active on WhatsApp. When she did not reply him immediately, he would send her lengthy messages throughout the day, expressing his love for her and pestering her to respond.

About a month later on Sept 6, the victim’s father made a police report when he learnt that “Guardian Angel” was texting his daughter at odd timings and appeared to be aware of her exact movements.

In urging the court to impose a sentence of more than 20 months’ jail, Deputy Public Prosecutor Amanda Chong Wei-Zhen said that Kuang engaged in a sustained campaign of emotional manipulation and deception, and his conduct towards his first victim was “predatory and premeditated”, including saving her number without her knowledge.

“As a teacher, he had abused the trust and authority reposed in him to nurture young people,” she added.

The Ministry of Education told TODAY that Kuang left his teaching post shortly after the police report was made against him in September 2015. It added that educators involved in serious misconduct would not be allowed to remain in service, and the ministry works closely with schools to safeguard the well-being of students.