Howard Shaw gets 12 weeks' jail for sex with underaged callgirl

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Former 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.

Singh applied for a non-custodial sentence for Shaw, arguing that his client's payment of the underaged callgirl's services had been an honest and reasonable mistake.

However, senior district judge See Kee Oon rejected the request, noting that Shaw was more than twice the girl's age.

The judge also did not agree that the incident had been an honest and reasonable mistake given that Shaw did not make the effort to inquire about the girl's age.

Shaw could have been sentenced a maximum of seven years.