Singapore, Sept. 30 -- A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty yesterday to handcuffing and blindfolding a girl, then 13, before committing various indecent acts on her in a handicapped toilet at Plaza Singapura last year.

Alaric Lim Qixian was then a full-time national serviceman with the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF).

The girl cannot be named because of a gag order to protect her identity.

District Judge Sharmila Sripathy called for probation and reformative training reports to be made.

Lim faces one charge of committing an indecent act with a child under the Children and Young Persons Act, as well as two charges of insulting the modesty of two women.

The court heard that in March last year, Lim met the girl at a cosplay event b...