Singapore, Jan 10 : A 50-year-old Indian-origin warrant officer with the Singapore Armed Forces has pleaded guilty to one charge of penetrating a minor below 16 in 2021.

Subramaniam Thaburan Rangasamy, who had helped the minor after she had a fall on stairs in a car park, is likely to face two more charges during his sentencing on February 1, The Straits Times newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Sunil Nair said the incident happened on December 6, 2021, when the victim was supposed to have an online meeting with her school counsellor in the morning.

The Secondary 3 student, who is now 17, was walking down from the fifth floor of the car park when she fell and hit a door, and Subramaniam helped her to her feet.

She thanked him and after chatting for about an hour in one of the floors of the car park, they became intimate.

Subramaniam tried to have sex with her, but failed, following which they parted ways and exchanged numbers, the news report said.

The court heard that they remained in contact via WhatsApp, but the messages were not of a sexual nature. Two days after the incident, she filed a police report because she felt that Subramaniam had taken advantage of her.