SINGAPORE — A scientist from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) sent messages to foreign mobile phone numbers in 2019 and 2020 in an attempt to arrange for commercial sex with children as young as 12 years old. Jason Scott Herrin, 49, a principal research fellow at NTU at the time of the offences, was also found to have 31 obscene films...
Jason Scott Herrin was also found to have 31 obscene films and 90 photographs of child abuse after his phone was seized in August 2020.SINGAPORE — A scientist from Nanyang Technological University sent messages to foreign mobile phone numbers in 2019 and 2020 in an attempt to arrange for commercial sex with children as young as 12 years old.
The Earth Observatory of Singapore's website stated at the time that he was "involved in volcano research and the study of meteorites and asteroid impacts on Earth". In their conversation, as revealed in court documents, Herrin offered four million rupiah for sex, and two million rupiah for a sex act.
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