A NANYANG Polytechnic student pleaded guilty on Thursday to living on the earnings of three Geylang prostitutes in January this year. Wong Jiong Yang, 18, also admitted to managing a place of assignation, which refers to the contact point for customers seeking the services of the prostitutes.
His sentencing was adjourned till next month for a pre-sentence report to be prepared so that the court can evaluate his suitability for probation.
A district court heard that a police officer attached to the Streetwalker Taskforce arrested three Thai women in a Geylang lodging house on the morning of Jan 24. The women, aged between 22 and 27, admitted they were prostitutes and that Wong was their pimp.
The Singaporean was subsequently arrested and investigations revealed that sometime in December 2010, he was offered a job by someone called Zen through an Internet chatroom.
Wong took up the offer, and the plan was for him to await instructions over the phone every evening. He would be told which alley to got to in the red-light district and solicit for the three prostitutes. Out of the $50 he collected from every customer, he kept $5.
At the end of the shift, which was usually in the early hours of the day, Zen would sent a runner on a motorcycle to collect the takings. As the boss was using an unlisted number, Wong had no means to contact him and had never met him. Neither had the prostitutes.
Source: ST Online
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