A MAN who had consensual sex with his 20-year-old daughter was jailed for three years on Monday.
The 47-year-old freelance plumber admitted to the incest at the master bedroom of his flat in April 2008. The parties cannot be named as there is a gag order.
The daughter, now 23, was initially charged in March last year but was later given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal. The accused had failed to turn up and the court issued a warrant for his arrest.
The court heard that he had been bringing his daughter for drinking sessions with his friends at coffeeshops since 2006. As they spent more time together, they became emotionally closer, and eventually, this developed into a sexual relationship.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Leong Wing Tuck said on one night in April 2008, both returned home after a beer drinking session. The accused's wife was not at home. While the accused was lying in bed, a small argument broke out between them when she showed little interest in talking to him as she was busy checking her e-mails on the laptop computer at the edge of the bed.
She apologised, and he asked her for a hug. They began caressing each other. They then had sex. A week later, they had a heated argument over the issue of her furthering her studies. She then texted a friend to call the police, who arrested him.
Source: ST Online
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Malaysian student gang-raped in London
PETALING JAYA - AN 18-YEAR-OLD Malaysian student in London was allegedly gang-raped by several Russian men, including an intelligence officer who has been charged with the offence.
The Sun tabloid of London, which broke the story on Thursday, reported that the girl had attended a party at the prestigious Bellerbys College in Greenwich, South London, where she is studying.
The report, quoting sources, claimed that the girl was allegedly drugged and then filmed while being assaulted by seven Russian men, including the intelligence officer identified as Oleg Vladimirvich Ivanov, 23.
The attack is said to have happened early last Sunday during the party attended by English language students of the college. The report stated that police retrieved iPhones with harrowing footage of the victim being gang-raped.
Ivanov was charged with three others identified as Gregory Andreev Melnikov, 22, Norayr Davtyan, 25, and Arnen Simonay, 26, with the offence at the Woolwich Magistrates' Court on Tuesday and Wednesday. All four claimed trial and have been remanded. They will appear at Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday.
Two other suspects were released on bail while another was released without any charge. The Sun report stated that the seven men had claimed to be students, but it quoted well-informed sources as saying that Ivanov worked in the Intelligence Section of the Moscow Police.
Source: ST Online/THE STAR/ANN
The Sun tabloid of London, which broke the story on Thursday, reported that the girl had attended a party at the prestigious Bellerbys College in Greenwich, South London, where she is studying.
The report, quoting sources, claimed that the girl was allegedly drugged and then filmed while being assaulted by seven Russian men, including the intelligence officer identified as Oleg Vladimirvich Ivanov, 23.
The attack is said to have happened early last Sunday during the party attended by English language students of the college. The report stated that police retrieved iPhones with harrowing footage of the victim being gang-raped.
Ivanov was charged with three others identified as Gregory Andreev Melnikov, 22, Norayr Davtyan, 25, and Arnen Simonay, 26, with the offence at the Woolwich Magistrates' Court on Tuesday and Wednesday. All four claimed trial and have been remanded. They will appear at Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday.
Two other suspects were released on bail while another was released without any charge. The Sun report stated that the seven men had claimed to be students, but it quoted well-informed sources as saying that Ivanov worked in the Intelligence Section of the Moscow Police.
Source: ST Online/THE STAR/ANN
Friday, January 28, 2011
Camera pen voyeur jailed
A FORMER cabby who used a camera pen to take upskirt videos of his female passengers was jailed for six months on Friday.
Albert Lim Meng Hie, 54, now unemployed, had admitted to three counts of insulting the modesty of a 21-year-old student and two unknown women in his taxi in 2009. Two other similar charges were considered during his sentencing.
The court heard that the young undergraduate was taking Lim's cab on June 30, 2009 when she saw him fidgeting with some objects at the arm-rest area next to him.
Subsequently, she saw a pen placed vertically and recognised it to be a camera pen as she had seen the device on a Chinese e-commerce website www.alibaba.com She discreetly took photographs of the camera pen and later reported it to the police.
The camera pen was seized from Lim's condominium in Pasir Ris. Five upskirt video clips were found stored on it by officers from the technology crime forensic branch of the Criminal Investigation Department.
Last month, sales manager Soo Ee Hock, 35, was sentenced to nine months jail for being the first 'camera-pen voyeur'. Lim, who is married with three children, could have been jailed for up to one year or fined or with both on each charge.
Source: ST Online
Albert Lim Meng Hie, 54, now unemployed, had admitted to three counts of insulting the modesty of a 21-year-old student and two unknown women in his taxi in 2009. Two other similar charges were considered during his sentencing.
The court heard that the young undergraduate was taking Lim's cab on June 30, 2009 when she saw him fidgeting with some objects at the arm-rest area next to him.
Subsequently, she saw a pen placed vertically and recognised it to be a camera pen as she had seen the device on a Chinese e-commerce website www.alibaba.com She discreetly took photographs of the camera pen and later reported it to the police.
The camera pen was seized from Lim's condominium in Pasir Ris. Five upskirt video clips were found stored on it by officers from the technology crime forensic branch of the Criminal Investigation Department.
Last month, sales manager Soo Ee Hock, 35, was sentenced to nine months jail for being the first 'camera-pen voyeur'. Lim, who is married with three children, could have been jailed for up to one year or fined or with both on each charge.
Source: ST Online
Thursday, January 27, 2011
US rapist used Facebook to meet young victims
NEW YORK - A NEW YORK man described by police as a sexual predator who used Facebook to meet his victims pleaded guilty on Wednesday to raping four underage girls.
David Bradt, 24, of Colonie, in northern New York state, who faces 12 years in prison, used the popular social networking site to try to lure hundreds of girls into encounters, police said.
'He was using Facebook as a means to meet underage girls,' Colonie Police Lieutenant Robert Winn said. 'He was providing them with marijuana and soliciting them for sex as well.' Lieutenant Winn said Bradt connected with girls on Facebook through a type of pyramid scheme.
'He started off by gaining one friendship with a girl,' Lieutenant Winn said. 'Then he had access to her friend page and requested to be friends with all friends, using her as a reference point.'
When police in Colonie, a suburb of Albany, New York, arrested Bradt in October, he had around 700 Facebook friends, most of whom appeared to be underage, they said. He pleaded guilty to four counts of rape and is expected to be sentenced in Albany County Court in March.
Lieutenant Winn said police were first alerted to Bradt's behaviour when a mother of a 16-year-old girl learned of her daughter's friendship with him and contacted police. He was arrested at his home when police found online directions on his computer to the home of an underage girl he was meeting for sex. -- REUTERS
Source: ST Online
David Bradt, 24, of Colonie, in northern New York state, who faces 12 years in prison, used the popular social networking site to try to lure hundreds of girls into encounters, police said.
'He was using Facebook as a means to meet underage girls,' Colonie Police Lieutenant Robert Winn said. 'He was providing them with marijuana and soliciting them for sex as well.' Lieutenant Winn said Bradt connected with girls on Facebook through a type of pyramid scheme.
'He started off by gaining one friendship with a girl,' Lieutenant Winn said. 'Then he had access to her friend page and requested to be friends with all friends, using her as a reference point.'
When police in Colonie, a suburb of Albany, New York, arrested Bradt in October, he had around 700 Facebook friends, most of whom appeared to be underage, they said. He pleaded guilty to four counts of rape and is expected to be sentenced in Albany County Court in March.
Lieutenant Winn said police were first alerted to Bradt's behaviour when a mother of a 16-year-old girl learned of her daughter's friendship with him and contacted police. He was arrested at his home when police found online directions on his computer to the home of an underage girl he was meeting for sex. -- REUTERS
Source: ST Online
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Rapist father jailed, caned
SINGAPORE: A father who raped his seven-year-old daughter was jailed 11 years jail and given 16 strokes of the cane on Tuesday morning in court.
The prosecution told the court that the rape was committed by the girl's father whose job was to protect and care for the child.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Sabrina Choo said that although the 42-year-old had mitigated that he was under the influence of alcohol, intoxication has been disregarded as a mitigating factor in sentencing. The fact that this was the man's first offence of this nature was also of limited value, she added.
One morning in 2005, the then-Primary One student was alone at home with her father. Her mother was at work and her two elder brothers were not home.
The father entered the girl's bedroom when she was sleeping and removed her clothes, waking the girl up. He told her to keep quiet, and instructed her to close her eyes and place her hands behind her back. The girl complied with the instructions as she was afraid of her father, who then raped her.
After the rape, her father told her to take a shower and later sent her to school. When they arrived at school, he told her not to tell anyone what had happened. She only confided in a teacher about the incident last February when the teacher told the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" in class to illustrate the dangers of talking to strangers.
The teacher asked the class if they had previous encounters with strangers. Later during the class, the girl told the teacher that her father had done "the sex thing" to her.
The man has been on the wrong side of the law since 1989. He was fined $800 for drug possession that year. In 1998 and 2002, he was jailed for 12 months and three years and six months respectively for drug consumption.
Source: CNA online
The prosecution told the court that the rape was committed by the girl's father whose job was to protect and care for the child.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Sabrina Choo said that although the 42-year-old had mitigated that he was under the influence of alcohol, intoxication has been disregarded as a mitigating factor in sentencing. The fact that this was the man's first offence of this nature was also of limited value, she added.
One morning in 2005, the then-Primary One student was alone at home with her father. Her mother was at work and her two elder brothers were not home.
The father entered the girl's bedroom when she was sleeping and removed her clothes, waking the girl up. He told her to keep quiet, and instructed her to close her eyes and place her hands behind her back. The girl complied with the instructions as she was afraid of her father, who then raped her.
After the rape, her father told her to take a shower and later sent her to school. When they arrived at school, he told her not to tell anyone what had happened. She only confided in a teacher about the incident last February when the teacher told the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" in class to illustrate the dangers of talking to strangers.
The teacher asked the class if they had previous encounters with strangers. Later during the class, the girl told the teacher that her father had done "the sex thing" to her.
The man has been on the wrong side of the law since 1989. He was fined $800 for drug possession that year. In 1998 and 2002, he was jailed for 12 months and three years and six months respectively for drug consumption.
Source: CNA online
Man fined $3,000 for molesting
AN UNEMPLOYED man who was found to be suffering from a psychiatric condition got away with a total fine of $3,000 for molesting two women.
Senthilnathan, 41, an accountant by training, pleaded guilty to two charges of outrage of modesty at NTUC FairPrice supermarkets in 2010. He committed the two offences at the Bukit Merah Central supermarket on March 17 and June 21.
In the March incident, he was squatting next to a 27-year-old woman when he stroked her right heel while she was talking to a colleague. Three months later, he was in the same supermarket when he brushed against the buttocks of another 27-year-old woman.
A third charge was considered during his sentencing. His lawyer R. Kalamohan said the father of one had been unemployed since 2009 as he was unable to stay in the same job for long, due to his delusional disorder.
Asking for a fine, counsel told District Judge Low Wee Ping that his client would be going to India with his father to seek treatment and rehabilitation in Madurai in Tamil Nadu.
Senthilnathan could have been jailed for up to two years or fined or caned, or received any of the punishments on each of the two charges.
Source: ST Online
Senthilnathan, 41, an accountant by training, pleaded guilty to two charges of outrage of modesty at NTUC FairPrice supermarkets in 2010. He committed the two offences at the Bukit Merah Central supermarket on March 17 and June 21.
In the March incident, he was squatting next to a 27-year-old woman when he stroked her right heel while she was talking to a colleague. Three months later, he was in the same supermarket when he brushed against the buttocks of another 27-year-old woman.
A third charge was considered during his sentencing. His lawyer R. Kalamohan said the father of one had been unemployed since 2009 as he was unable to stay in the same job for long, due to his delusional disorder.
Asking for a fine, counsel told District Judge Low Wee Ping that his client would be going to India with his father to seek treatment and rehabilitation in Madurai in Tamil Nadu.
Senthilnathan could have been jailed for up to two years or fined or caned, or received any of the punishments on each of the two charges.
Source: ST Online
Social networking leads to sex faster
NEW YORK - NEARLY four out of five women and three of five men say they believe texting, Facebook and other social networking tools cause new couples to jump into bed faster, a survey released by Shape and Men's Fitness magazines on Monday showed.
Smart phones and laptops are the new toys that lead to the bedroom, it said, with nearly 80 per cent of women and 58 per cent of men saying social media tools leads to sex faster.
Texting is the No. 1 way lovers stay in touch, the survey found, with men texting 39 per cent more often than phoning and women 150 per cent more. Even before the magic begins, 70 per cent of women and 63 per cent of men use Google and other online tools to screen potential dates.
Sixty-five per cent of those polled said they had been asked out by text and 49 per cent through a Facebook message. Once the relationship clicks, 72 per cent of women report scouring a current partner's ex-girlfriends' Facebook pages.
Even in the heat of passion, some people just can't get enough of their digital devices, the survey found. When a call or text comes in during sex, 5 per cent of respondents said they glance to see who is calling and 1 per cent say they stop to answer the phone.
And when the spark is extinguished, digital dumping is the new way to break up, with 43 per cent of women and 27 per cent of men reporting getting a text along the lines of 'It's not you, it's me.' For the heartbroken, the Internet keeps hope alive, with 81 per cent of all respondents saying they won't de-friend an ex on Facebook and 75 per cent admitting to constantly checking a former sweetheart's page.
Source: ST Online/REUTERS
Smart phones and laptops are the new toys that lead to the bedroom, it said, with nearly 80 per cent of women and 58 per cent of men saying social media tools leads to sex faster.
Texting is the No. 1 way lovers stay in touch, the survey found, with men texting 39 per cent more often than phoning and women 150 per cent more. Even before the magic begins, 70 per cent of women and 63 per cent of men use Google and other online tools to screen potential dates.
Sixty-five per cent of those polled said they had been asked out by text and 49 per cent through a Facebook message. Once the relationship clicks, 72 per cent of women report scouring a current partner's ex-girlfriends' Facebook pages.
Even in the heat of passion, some people just can't get enough of their digital devices, the survey found. When a call or text comes in during sex, 5 per cent of respondents said they glance to see who is calling and 1 per cent say they stop to answer the phone.
And when the spark is extinguished, digital dumping is the new way to break up, with 43 per cent of women and 27 per cent of men reporting getting a text along the lines of 'It's not you, it's me.' For the heartbroken, the Internet keeps hope alive, with 81 per cent of all respondents saying they won't de-friend an ex on Facebook and 75 per cent admitting to constantly checking a former sweetheart's page.
Source: ST Online/REUTERS
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