Dad confronts man who allegedly tried to pick up 9-year-old daughter at Thomson Plaza

[UPDATE Nov 21] According to media reports, a woman claiming to be the man's mother said that he had previously sought professional help.

"Because of the nature of his conditions, his rigid and impulsive behaviour gets him into unnecessary trouble... Give us time to manage his problems."

Police earlier confirmed that a report had been made against the man.

Low crime doesn't mean no crime - and this father's vigilance may have paid off.

A father confronted a man who allegedly tried to pick up his primary school daughter when she was alone in Thomson Plaza, according to a video uploaded to TikTok on Wednesday (Nov 6).

The video has since been reposted on multiple platforms, but the original one by TikTok user Busybeesingapore has been deleted.

According to the post, the father had left his nine-year-old daughter alone to play with a claw machine in the mall's arcade and went to the washroom.

When he came back, he was told by his daughter that she had purportedly been approached by a 30-year-old man who asked for her phone number and told her to text and call him.

'No motive, just making friends'

Returning to the arcade, his daughter identified the man and the father confronted him.

In the video, the father can be heard forcing the man to remove his daughter's phone number from his device, and also happened to see his other messages.

"He was talking to a few under-12 girls and asking questions that would make parents really uncomfortable," the post stated.

In the video, the father can be heard grilling the man, who says that he had "just asked [for his daughter's] name", her phone number, and asked her to call or message him.

"No motive, just making friends," the man explains, adding that his other friends "want to know".

Upon further questioning by the father, the man states that he has an active police investigation against him regarding a sexual offence relating to his "friend".

"You are a concern to all parents, you understand?" The father stresses, adding that "little girls won't be safe around him".

The man also promises not to "make friends with young girls anymore" and to delete the conversations he's had with other girls on his phone.

The video ends with the father telling the man that "he's a threat to the public". 

It's unclear if the father made a police report regarding this incident.

AsiaOne has reached out to Busybeesingapore and the man for more information.

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khooyihang@asiaone.com