A 78-year-old Singaporean man pleaded guilty to a charge of voyeurism and was sentenced on 3 February to 6 months in prison.
He had installed a pinhole camera under a toilet door to record his daughter’s maid in the shower four times in three days.
The man used to be a teacher for more than 30 years.
The man cannot be named due to a court order protecting the identity of the victim.
What happened?
The maid was showering on 10 March 2021 at about 3.40pm when she noticed the pinhole camera under the door, with a cable attached to it.
The maid then turned off the shower and put on her clothes, she then emerged from the toilet and saw the man praying inside his bedroom.
She confronted him but he denied doing anything wrong, but later admitted to his daughter that he had put a camera under the toilet while the victim was in the shower.
The maid then went to lodge a police report with the offender and his daughter at a neighbourhood police centre on the same day.
Following investigations, the man was revealed to have been operating a borescope from 8 to 10 March, intending to observe the maid showering without her permission, on 4 occasions.
The device was seized on 11 March.