Recidivism Rates for Child Sexual Abuse Offences over Past 10 Years

2 Mr Ng Shi Xuan asked the Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs what are the two-year, five-year and 10-year recidivism rates for child sexual abuse offences over the past 10 years.

Mr K Shanmugam: Table 1 below shows the two-year and five-year recidivism rates¹ of local offenders who were incarcerated for child sexual abuse offences and whose re-offending offence was also a child sexual abuse offence. The recidivism rates for such offenders are generally low but are prone to fluctuation since the number of such offenders released each year is small.