‘Female’ who lured 2 boys into sex trap faces charges of procuring sex by gender identity fraud: prosecutors
A local man who pretended to be a female and separately lured two schoolboys into having sex with him in August now faces charges of procuring a sexual act by gender identify fraud, the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) said in a statement yesterday.
The Macau Post Daily published a report on Monday about the peculiar case (https://www.macaupostdaily.com/article15710.html), which was announced by the Judiciary Police (PJ) on Friday last week.
According to last Friday’s PJ announcement, PJ investigations revealed that the man opened an account on a social networking app three years ago and displayed a female’s photo as the profile photo. Pretending to be a female he used the account in an attempt to lure boys into having sex with him in hotel guestrooms by promising to pay them.
The two boys’ case announced by the Judiciary Police on Friday last week occurred on August 22.
According to last Friday’s PJ announcement, the two boys went to a hotel guestroom at around 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. respectively on the same day after having been told by the man to go there on the social networking app. The suspect, a 31-year-old local man, covered the two boys’ eyes with a towel when leading them into the room. The man had sex with the two boys whose eyes were covered with the towel. Only after the police told them did the boys realise that the suspect is a man.
One of the two boys felt pain in his penis after returning to his family flat.
Yesterday’s MP statement noted that the suspect has “concealed” his gender and separately enticed two male minors to have sex with him in a hotel guestroom, adding that the suspect had also injured one of the boys while having sex with him.
Article 161 of Penal Code
Yesterday’s MP statement said that after an investigation, prosecutors have decided to charge the suspect with procuring a sexual act by gender identify fraud, based on Article 161 of the Macau Penal Code.
Clause 1 of Article 161 states that a person who has fraudulently lured another person into engaging in a sexual act with him or her by giving the victim a wrong idea of his or her genuine personal identity – such as touching the victim’s genitals – faces a prison term of up to two years.
However, according to Clause 2 of Article 161, the offender faces a prison term of up to five years if he or she engage in vaginal intercourse, anal sex or oral sex with the victim, or if they insert an object, or any particular part of their body, into the victim’s vagina or anus.
Yesterday’s statement noted that the suspect in this case charged with procuring a sexual act by gender identify fraud will face a prison term of up to five years.
Moreover, yesterday’s statement said, the man also faces a charge of causing bodily harm, which carries a prison term of up to three years.
The statement said that upon recommendation of the prosecutors, the examining magistrate has decided to remand the suspect in custody, due to the “iniquitous” circumstances of the case.
