A discipline master from a secondary school in Singapore pleaded guilty on 2 September to three charges of insulting a woman’s modesty.
5 other charges will be considered during his sentencing, which is set to be in November – the prosecution is seeking a jail term of between 1 year to 18 months.
He had taken more than 100 upskirt videos of teachers and students at the school.
What happened?
The 49-year-old father of three, served as the school’s discipline master since 2015, and taught Chinese at the school, where he has been working at since 2008.
The identities of the man, the school and the victims cannot be revealed due to a court order.
Between April 2015 and July 2018, he took 156 upskirt videos of at least 38 of his female colleagues, of which most of them being teachers.
He took the videos by inviting them to his table to help him “key in data” and putting his phone under their skirts.
Only men and women who were wearing pants were rarely asked to go to his table to help him with “data entry”.
He also shot another 12 upskirt videos of at least 7 female students from May 2015 to February 2019, where he would take the students to the discipline room and record them as they used a computer.
The court heard that the man would use the upskirt videos that he took for his own pleasure, transferring them to an external hard disk from his office laptop, and the videos were not shared online.
He also confiscated the phone of a male student who took upskirt videos of a female teacher, then used his phone to film the videos on the boy’s phone under the pretence of “collecting evidence” – he then added the videos to his own collection.
Also filmed a female relative
One of the victims, who was his female colleague, suspected that he had been taking upskirt videos of teachers and filed a police report on July 2018.
The authorities later found 173 upskirt videos on his hard disk, with each of the videos being named after the names or initials of the victims.
He had also taken an upskirt video of a female relative at a party of his mother-in-law.