featuring boys aged above 13, according to a psychiatric report from the Institute of Mental Health (IMH). He claimed that he was stressed at work and this led to him losing his control over his hebephilic sexual interests and thus committing these offences in a moment of folly. The boys were not named in the media due to their ages. Tan was sentenced on the same day as another unrelated sexual offender—60-year-old Singaporean Mohamed Taha bin Ahmad—who also molested a boy (a 12-year-old minor) in October 2020 and thus received a jail term of 14 months. See also Ephebophilia Pedophilia References External links List of articles on the diagnostic controversy maintained by Karen Franklin Adolescence Chronophilia Puberty Child sexual abuse