SINGAPORE, April 16 -- A 32-year-old Singaporean business analyst at a bank manipulated 31 girls and young women into sexually exposing themselves over three years, offering money in exchange for explicit content.

Hee Lic Yuan committed the offences between 2019 and 2021, targeting victims aged 13 to 22, according to a report published today in The Straits Times.

On April 16, he was sentenced to six years and nine months in jail and six strokes of the cane.

Hee pleaded guilty to 15 charges, including sexually penetrating an underage girl and producing explicit material involving a minor.

The charges involved 11 victims, most of whom he had approached with offers to become his "sugar baby."

The phrase refers to a younger individual wh...