A man who paid $100 for sex with an underage Vietnamese prostitute was jailed for nine months on Tuesday.
Kum Chin Tiong, 57, then a land and estate executive with the Singapore Land Authority, pleaded guilty to having commercial sex with the 16-year-old sex worker at Meng Yew Hotel in Geylang in July 2011.
A district court head that Kum was at a pub in Joo Chiat Road in mid-July when the Vietnamese girl approached him. She told him she was 20 years old but he disbelieved her as she looked younger than that. She also refused to let him see her passport.
Despite that, he asked her for sexual services. The girl, who is now 17, quoted $100 for 'short-time' sex. They exchanged contact numbers.
In end-July, she called him on the phone. Subsequently, he met her at her lodging house, and they took a cab to the hotel where he paid her $100 for her services.
Kum, who has two children and whose divorce is pending, could have been jailed for up to seven years and/or fined for commercial sex with a person below 18 years old.
Source: ST Online
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Molested 16-year-old girl hid naked in forest
He told her that he was taking her to meet his gambling friends in Mandai and drove her into the forested area of Lorong Asrama off Mandai Road one night in September 1996.
There, Tan Leng Hwa, 42, asked the 16-year-old student to be his girlfriend. She turned him down and he molested her. He took away her spectacles leaving the girl unable to see clearly. He pulled off her clothes and caressed her breasts. She managed to break free. Totally nude, she ran into the bushes.
He was unable to find her and drove off. Only then, did she come out. In the utter darkness, she was unable to find her clothes. Covering herself with the pages of a discarded newspaper, she ran to the main road. The driver of the first car she tried to stop ignored her. She then tried to seek help at a gate of an army camp but it was unmanned.
She only managed to stop a taxi more than an hour later. She used his shirt to cover herself for the drive to a police post. A medical checkup later revealed multiple bruises all over her body and she was awarded three days' medical leave.
Tan surrendered himself to police 16 days later and was charged in court in March 1997. He jumped bail two months later and went into hiding.
It is not known when he fled to Malaysia but there he participated in a kidnapping. He and three Malaysian accomplices were arrested in January 2010 and jailed for the offence of wrongful confinement.
Tan, now 58 years old, was extradited to Singapore in July 2011. He pleaded guilty on Tuesday to committing aggravated molest on the student and for jumping bail. He also admitted to stealing a car valued at $60,000 in April 1998. This charge was taken into consideration by District Judge Lee Poh Choo when she sentenced Tan to jail for four years for molest and two months for going into hiding.
source: ST ONLINE
There, Tan Leng Hwa, 42, asked the 16-year-old student to be his girlfriend. She turned him down and he molested her. He took away her spectacles leaving the girl unable to see clearly. He pulled off her clothes and caressed her breasts. She managed to break free. Totally nude, she ran into the bushes.
He was unable to find her and drove off. Only then, did she come out. In the utter darkness, she was unable to find her clothes. Covering herself with the pages of a discarded newspaper, she ran to the main road. The driver of the first car she tried to stop ignored her. She then tried to seek help at a gate of an army camp but it was unmanned.
She only managed to stop a taxi more than an hour later. She used his shirt to cover herself for the drive to a police post. A medical checkup later revealed multiple bruises all over her body and she was awarded three days' medical leave.
Tan surrendered himself to police 16 days later and was charged in court in March 1997. He jumped bail two months later and went into hiding.
It is not known when he fled to Malaysia but there he participated in a kidnapping. He and three Malaysian accomplices were arrested in January 2010 and jailed for the offence of wrongful confinement.
Tan, now 58 years old, was extradited to Singapore in July 2011. He pleaded guilty on Tuesday to committing aggravated molest on the student and for jumping bail. He also admitted to stealing a car valued at $60,000 in April 1998. This charge was taken into consideration by District Judge Lee Poh Choo when she sentenced Tan to jail for four years for molest and two months for going into hiding.
source: ST ONLINE
Thursday, December 29, 2011
19yo girl was beaten up and forced into sex
MALACCA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A 19-year-old girl was locked up, assaulted and forced to have sex with several men whom her captors brought before she was rescued during a police raid at a budget hotel in Taman Melaka Raya here.
The victim, from Sungai Semun, Perak, told police she was battered with a television cable several times and her pictures taken whenever she bathed at the home of a 20-year-old woman, said to be vice ring's leader.
One of her captors threatened to upload her nude pictures on YouTube if she refused to be a hooker. The victim, in her police report, claimed she was forced to entertain 'many clients' even though she was exhausted after every session.
A police team, who had been on the trail of the ring leader, raided the hotel and nabbed three women before rescuing the victim. In a follow-up operation, police picked up a 21-year-old man in Klebang near here and seized several of the victim's belongings and RM450 (S$184) in cash.
Investigations revealed that the victim was persuaded to come to Malacca by a woman, known as Nabsiah, with a promise that she would be employed at a fast food restaurant here.
However, upon her arrival, she was kept captive in a house and assaulted by Nabsiah and her gang members and told that she would have to 'entertain' a list of clients.
Datuk K. Basil, who heads a state government task force to eradicate vice, said state police chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Chuah Ghee Lye had ordered the raid.
'SAC Chuah was concerned over an earlier report that a woman from Malacca had allegedly lured runaway girls and kept them captive here before forcing them into prostitution,' he said.
Basil said the task force, set up by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam, would work closely with the police and local authorities to wipe out prostitution in the state.
He said two members of the vice ring were expected to be charged under the Anti-Human Trafficking Act 2007.
On Dec 2, another 19-year-old girl from Ulu Temiang in Negri Sembilan said she was forced to have sex with six men.
The teenager was believed to be among a group of runaway girls that the woman and a male accomplice had lured for prostitution.
Negri Sembilan police later detained the 29-year-old woman and the man at a hotel in Bahau during a raid. Several teenage girls were rescued in that operation
Source: ST Online
The victim, from Sungai Semun, Perak, told police she was battered with a television cable several times and her pictures taken whenever she bathed at the home of a 20-year-old woman, said to be vice ring's leader.
One of her captors threatened to upload her nude pictures on YouTube if she refused to be a hooker. The victim, in her police report, claimed she was forced to entertain 'many clients' even though she was exhausted after every session.
A police team, who had been on the trail of the ring leader, raided the hotel and nabbed three women before rescuing the victim. In a follow-up operation, police picked up a 21-year-old man in Klebang near here and seized several of the victim's belongings and RM450 (S$184) in cash.
Investigations revealed that the victim was persuaded to come to Malacca by a woman, known as Nabsiah, with a promise that she would be employed at a fast food restaurant here.
However, upon her arrival, she was kept captive in a house and assaulted by Nabsiah and her gang members and told that she would have to 'entertain' a list of clients.
Datuk K. Basil, who heads a state government task force to eradicate vice, said state police chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Chuah Ghee Lye had ordered the raid.
'SAC Chuah was concerned over an earlier report that a woman from Malacca had allegedly lured runaway girls and kept them captive here before forcing them into prostitution,' he said.
Basil said the task force, set up by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam, would work closely with the police and local authorities to wipe out prostitution in the state.
He said two members of the vice ring were expected to be charged under the Anti-Human Trafficking Act 2007.
On Dec 2, another 19-year-old girl from Ulu Temiang in Negri Sembilan said she was forced to have sex with six men.
The teenager was believed to be among a group of runaway girls that the woman and a male accomplice had lured for prostitution.
Negri Sembilan police later detained the 29-year-old woman and the man at a hotel in Bahau during a raid. Several teenage girls were rescued in that operation
Source: ST Online
Friday, December 23, 2011
Teacher pleads guilty to sex with 14-year-old student
A teacher told his wife that he was giving 'private tuition' but was actually having sex with a 14-year-old student.
On Dec 23, the teacher, now 41, pleaded guilty in a district court to having sex with a minor. He will be sentenced on Jan 17 next year. The man cannot be named to protect the identity of the student, a minor at that time.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Kavitha Uthrapathy said that the man, then 38 and married with a child, bought gifts for the student and told her how pretty she was while on a school trip to Korea.
She agreed to be his girlfriend and they would meet and talk initially. He would pick her up in his car and send her home after school. He also tutored her for free. He lied about an unhappy marriage and that his wife was filing for a divorce.
They first had sex in the CCA room some time in November or December 2007 before school started at 7.30am. Then, on her 15th birthday, he bought her a black dress and a pair of sandals and also booked a room at Orchid Country Club where they spent the afternoon. On other occasions, they had sex in his car at a car park in Upper Seletar Reservoir Park.
In 2008, the school received a complaint about inappropriate behaviour between the teacher and the student while on a school trip to the United States.
He assured the principal and vice-principal that he was like a father to her. However, he was issued a warning letter for impropriety. He then became depressed and was granted medical leave till he was transferred to another secondary school in January 2009. The relationship continued all this while.
A year later in January 2010, his wife was on maternity leave after having their second child. She used his cellphone to take pictures of the newborn and discovered intimate text messages to the student and an ex-student.
He told her that they were his students and promised to stop giving them private tuition. The two teenagers also denied being in a relationship with her husband.
However, the younger teen felt let down that the wife had a second child and that the man was also having sex with the ex-student. She broke off the relationship.
In April last year, the man's wife told the student's mother about her suspicions. Her father then lodged a police report.
Source: ST Online
On Dec 23, the teacher, now 41, pleaded guilty in a district court to having sex with a minor. He will be sentenced on Jan 17 next year. The man cannot be named to protect the identity of the student, a minor at that time.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Kavitha Uthrapathy said that the man, then 38 and married with a child, bought gifts for the student and told her how pretty she was while on a school trip to Korea.
She agreed to be his girlfriend and they would meet and talk initially. He would pick her up in his car and send her home after school. He also tutored her for free. He lied about an unhappy marriage and that his wife was filing for a divorce.
They first had sex in the CCA room some time in November or December 2007 before school started at 7.30am. Then, on her 15th birthday, he bought her a black dress and a pair of sandals and also booked a room at Orchid Country Club where they spent the afternoon. On other occasions, they had sex in his car at a car park in Upper Seletar Reservoir Park.
In 2008, the school received a complaint about inappropriate behaviour between the teacher and the student while on a school trip to the United States.
He assured the principal and vice-principal that he was like a father to her. However, he was issued a warning letter for impropriety. He then became depressed and was granted medical leave till he was transferred to another secondary school in January 2009. The relationship continued all this while.
A year later in January 2010, his wife was on maternity leave after having their second child. She used his cellphone to take pictures of the newborn and discovered intimate text messages to the student and an ex-student.
He told her that they were his students and promised to stop giving them private tuition. The two teenagers also denied being in a relationship with her husband.
However, the younger teen felt let down that the wife had a second child and that the man was also having sex with the ex-student. She broke off the relationship.
In April last year, the man's wife told the student's mother about her suspicions. Her father then lodged a police report.
Source: ST Online
Friday, December 16, 2011
60-year sentence for serial rapes in Shizuoka possibly a Japan first
On November 30, a most unusual prison sentence of 60 years was handed down to 35-year-old Takashi Ozawa, who raped and assaulted nine women in Mishima City, Shizuoka Prefecture and other areas over a period of nine years.
Weekly tabloid Shukan Jitsuwa (Dec. 22) sets about determining why such a length was decided considering a revised law from 2004 limits imprisonment for rape to a maximum of 30 years.
“Prior to the current court case (November), he had been found guilty of theft, in March 2009,” says a reporter specializing in legal affairs. “The timing of that case was such that it created a separation within the time period of the rape crimes. Therefore, he couldn’t be tried under one case.”
Specifically, five cases occurred between 2001 and the date of his conviction for theft; four others cases took place after. The court broke the crimes into two groups and issued a sentence of 60 years in total.
“The defendant has abnormal sexual habits and a personality that is a high risk for recurrence,” prosecutors said. “He will require a substantial period of rehabilitation.”
Attorneys for the defendant commented, “We are astonished to see a penalty of this magnitude.”
“I have never heard of combining two 30-year sentences to make 60,” says Tadashi Makino, a former prosecutor and now an attorney. “Perhaps this is the first of its kind. However, charging 30 years for a set of five incidents and a set of four is understandable.”
In actuality, he was sentenced to 24 years and 26 years for the two groups of cases, respectively, on December 5.
Makino adds that such consecutive sentences is worse than life imprisonment. “If he were imprisoned indefinitely, he would possibly be able to get out after serving just 30 years,” the former lawyer says. “In being imprisoned separately, it is much more severe compared to an indefinite term.”
“I feel great remorse for damaging women’s lives,” Ozawa said in his final statement. Shukan Jitsuwa, however, thinks he is more remorseful about not confessing to rape when he got caught for theft. (K.N.)
Source: tokyoreporter.com
Weekly tabloid Shukan Jitsuwa (Dec. 22) sets about determining why such a length was decided considering a revised law from 2004 limits imprisonment for rape to a maximum of 30 years.
“Prior to the current court case (November), he had been found guilty of theft, in March 2009,” says a reporter specializing in legal affairs. “The timing of that case was such that it created a separation within the time period of the rape crimes. Therefore, he couldn’t be tried under one case.”
Specifically, five cases occurred between 2001 and the date of his conviction for theft; four others cases took place after. The court broke the crimes into two groups and issued a sentence of 60 years in total.
“The defendant has abnormal sexual habits and a personality that is a high risk for recurrence,” prosecutors said. “He will require a substantial period of rehabilitation.”
Attorneys for the defendant commented, “We are astonished to see a penalty of this magnitude.”
“I have never heard of combining two 30-year sentences to make 60,” says Tadashi Makino, a former prosecutor and now an attorney. “Perhaps this is the first of its kind. However, charging 30 years for a set of five incidents and a set of four is understandable.”
In actuality, he was sentenced to 24 years and 26 years for the two groups of cases, respectively, on December 5.
Makino adds that such consecutive sentences is worse than life imprisonment. “If he were imprisoned indefinitely, he would possibly be able to get out after serving just 30 years,” the former lawyer says. “In being imprisoned separately, it is much more severe compared to an indefinite term.”
“I feel great remorse for damaging women’s lives,” Ozawa said in his final statement. Shukan Jitsuwa, however, thinks he is more remorseful about not confessing to rape when he got caught for theft. (K.N.)
Source: tokyoreporter.com
Thursday, December 1, 2011
2 men charged with paying a 16-year-old girl for sex
wo men were charged on Thursday with paying an under-18 Vietnamese girl for sex.
Yeo Joo Meng, 55, a store personnel, is accused of two counts of paying the 16-year-old girl for her sexual services at Lorong 28 Geylang. He allegedly paid her $130 on the first occasion in end-2010, and $100 in July this year.
Yeo, represented by Mr Andrew Tan Tiong Gee, will return to court on Dec 29.
In the same court, Winson Chan Swee Teck, 49, is said to have had paid $100 for sex with the same girl at Lorong 28 Geylang in July this year.
His lawyer Abdul Jalil Muhammad Tahir, said he had just been briefed and sought an adjournment to take instructions and make representations.
Chan's next court date is Dec 22.
It is a crime to have paid sex with a person under 18. The law came into effect in February 2008.
If convicted, both can be jailed for up to seven years and/or fined.
Source: ST Online
Yeo Joo Meng, 55, a store personnel, is accused of two counts of paying the 16-year-old girl for her sexual services at Lorong 28 Geylang. He allegedly paid her $130 on the first occasion in end-2010, and $100 in July this year.
Yeo, represented by Mr Andrew Tan Tiong Gee, will return to court on Dec 29.
In the same court, Winson Chan Swee Teck, 49, is said to have had paid $100 for sex with the same girl at Lorong 28 Geylang in July this year.
His lawyer Abdul Jalil Muhammad Tahir, said he had just been briefed and sought an adjournment to take instructions and make representations.
Chan's next court date is Dec 22.
It is a crime to have paid sex with a person under 18. The law came into effect in February 2008.
If convicted, both can be jailed for up to seven years and/or fined.
Source: ST Online
Monday, November 28, 2011
Zimbabwean women rape men for rituals: Report
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Men travelling to Zimbabwe have to be careful not to accept lifts from women.
Zimbabwean police believe there is a syndicate of women who are raping men to 'milk' them for semen to be used in rituals that claim to make people wealthy.
According to a BBC News Africa report, it has taken more than a year for any arrests to be made. Three women are scheduled to face trial in the capital of Harare today over the allegations.
The report said one alleged victim, who requested anonymity, told his story on television in July this year. He said: "One of the women threw water in my face and injected me with something that gave me strong sexual desire.
"They stopped the car and made me have sex with each of them several times, using condoms. When they had finished they left me in the bush totally naked."
He was rescued when some people called the police, who took him to the hospital to mend the effects of the drug, "as the urge to have sex was still there".
The BBC News report added the women were charged in court for aggravated indecent assault since Zimbabwean law did not recognise the act of a woman raping a man.
The women were detained after officers found 31 used condoms in the car that they were travelling in.
The charges were denied by the women who said they were prostitutes and had been too busy to dispose of the condoms.
Police who spoke with the BBC said they believe there is a syndicate operating nationwide.
The semen is believed to be used in rituals to bring success in business, and there are suggestions that they are being taken outside of the country for sale.
A cultural and sociology lecturer Claude Mararikei told the BBC it was not clear how the semen would be used.
He said it is in the area of rituals and magic which border on secret societies. And researchers do not want to go into that area as they may not live to come out and publish their findings. AGENCIES
Zimbabwean police believe there is a syndicate of women who are raping men to 'milk' them for semen to be used in rituals that claim to make people wealthy.
According to a BBC News Africa report, it has taken more than a year for any arrests to be made. Three women are scheduled to face trial in the capital of Harare today over the allegations.
The report said one alleged victim, who requested anonymity, told his story on television in July this year. He said: "One of the women threw water in my face and injected me with something that gave me strong sexual desire.
"They stopped the car and made me have sex with each of them several times, using condoms. When they had finished they left me in the bush totally naked."
He was rescued when some people called the police, who took him to the hospital to mend the effects of the drug, "as the urge to have sex was still there".
The BBC News report added the women were charged in court for aggravated indecent assault since Zimbabwean law did not recognise the act of a woman raping a man.
The women were detained after officers found 31 used condoms in the car that they were travelling in.
The charges were denied by the women who said they were prostitutes and had been too busy to dispose of the condoms.
Police who spoke with the BBC said they believe there is a syndicate operating nationwide.
The semen is believed to be used in rituals to bring success in business, and there are suggestions that they are being taken outside of the country for sale.
A cultural and sociology lecturer Claude Mararikei told the BBC it was not clear how the semen would be used.
He said it is in the area of rituals and magic which border on secret societies. And researchers do not want to go into that area as they may not live to come out and publish their findings. AGENCIES
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