Singapore: The father, who took the rap for his daughter after she caused a traffic accident while driving without a licence, was sentenced on Friday.
David Ong, 57, pleaded guilty to three charges, including two counts of perverting the course of justice.
The father was working as a Grab driver at the time of the accident. His defence lawyer, Mr S.S. Dhillon, said he took the rap for his daughter out of fatherly love. The judge said Ong’s method of protecting his daughter was a misguided one. Instead of teaching his daughter to face the consequences of her actions and supporting her through the process, he had instead instigated her to lie to the authorities and perverted the course of justice, said the judge.
Ong immediately told his daughter he would take her place and assume responsibility for what had happened. She agreed, and he told police officers he was the driver of the car. But the lie was exposed more than 2½ years later, when lawyers engaged by the victim to make a civil claim in April 2022 alerted the police to the audio recording of Ong’s in-car camera. It revealed a conversation the father and daughter had, about him taking the rap.Ong admitted he was coaching his daughter on driving as she had only a valid driver’s licence from the United States, and was used to a left-hand-drive vehicle.
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