SINGAPORE, Dec. 30 -- A 19-year-old full-time national serviceman with the Singapore Police Force was ordered to undergo reformative training for at least a year on December 29 for offering cash to teenage boys in return for performing sexual acts on them.

The accused was identified as Muhammad Shafirul Danish Muhammad Shaffie who pled guilty in November to two counts of communicating with a young person below the age of 18 to try and obtain sexual services from him, as well as a harassment charge. He was sentenced yesterday, The Straits Times reported.

Under Singaporean law, young offenders sentenced this way are held in detention centres where they undergo rigorous programmes such as foot drills and counselling.

In one incident, Shaf...