SINGAPORE — A former Singapore army captain has been jailed for 17 months for sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy and filming their encounters for what he described as his “personal collection”.

Chaw Chia Jun, 41, was sentenced yesterday after pleading guilty to three charges involving sexual penetration of a minor and the production of child abuse material, Channel News Asia (CNA) reported.

The court heard that Chaw, who held the rank of captain in the Singapore Army at the time of the offences in 2024, was introduced to the teenager by his former partner, a cook serving in the Republic of Singapore Navy.

The former partner, Owen Toh Wei Song, 26, was himself sentenced to 12 months in prison last month over offences involving the same boy.

According to CNA, the teenager, then a Secondary 4 student, had been searching online for ways to make friends when he came across Toh’s profile on a forum for adult gay men in April 2024.

The two began communicating, and Toh subsequently introduced him to Chaw, falsely telling the boy that the army officer was 32.

The three later met at a multi-storey car park in Punggol, where sexual acts took place and Chaw made a video recording. He subsequently sent a copy to Toh.

Chaw continued meeting the teenager without Toh, including at a shopping mall on June 5, 2024, where they engaged in sexual acts inside an accessible toilet.

He recorded two videos during that encounter, one of which showed the boy’s face.

Chaw kept the recordings on his phone, telling investigators that he routinely filmed sexual encounters with others and retained the footage as part of his “personal collection”.