MAN ARRESTED FOR VOYEURISM
The Police have arrested a 22-year-old man for his suspected involvement in a case of voyeurism.
On 17 May 2023, at about 6.20pm, the Police were alerted a man allegedly taking an upskirt video of a female victim on the escalator at City Hall MRT station.
Through ground enquiries and with the aid of images from CCTV cameras, officers from Public Transport Security Command and Central Police Division established the identity of the man and arrested him on the same day.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the man is purportedly involved in other similar cases of voyeurism. Police investigations are ongoing.
The offence of voyeurism under Section 377BB(5)(a) punishable under Section 377BB(7) of the Penal Code 1871 carries an imprisonment term which may extend to two years, a fine, caning, or any combinations of such punishments.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
18 May 2023 @ 7:15 PM
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Earlier this year, 40-year-old Indonesian maid Hidayah, who only goes by one name, was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment on 14 February after pleading guilty to one count of voyeurism and one count of distributing an intimate image of her victim.
She had taken a picture of herself with a vulnerable elderly man wearing nothing on 18 April 2022 and sent it to her husband on Whatsapp.
She attached a message in Javanese along with the photo, saying “salary 8 million rupiah but my job is so hard, need to bathe old people.”
She then did the same thing about 4 days later and sent the photo to a friend.
The 79-year-old elderly victim, who has Parkinson’s disease and needs help performing his daily activities such as eating and showering, cannot be named due to a court order protecting his identity.
Not just S’pore
A university student in Malaysia caught trying to take an upskirt photo of a female classmate and getting down on his knees in fear.
The incident purportedly took place at a university in Klang Valley, Malaysia.
In the video, which is about 22 seconds long, the Malaysian student was seen wearing a light brown coloured hoodie and walking into a classroom.
He passed by a few of the students inside before whipping out his phone and facing the camera upwards from under the skirt of a girl who was going about her business at the table.
One of the other male students then realised what the guy was doing and hurriedly got up from his seat and confronted him, chasing after him and snatching his phone from him.
He was later seen being confronted by other male students, with the guy wearing a grey tee demanding to know the password to the guy’s phone, as the guy vehemently denied what he had done.
The guy then said “I admit, I admit,” confessing to what he had done as he got down on his knees, and the students told him “you admit no use,” as the other students dragged him away, with another female student exclaiming that she was going to inform the police about what happened.