40-year-old Bangladeshi national Patian Sohag, who had been working at a chemical plating factory in Singapore for 16 years, was sentenced to 3.5 years imprisonment on 16 September.
He had molested and raped a 53-year-old woman who was sleeping on a chair at an alley in Geylang on 1 March 2021.
He war charged with abduction for forced illicit intercourse and criminal force to outrage the woman’s modesty.
What happened?
Patian was drinking with his friends on 28 February at about 10pm, before heading to Geylang at about 2am to look for prostitutes with a friend.
He then felt that the prices for the women were too high, and continued looking around the area for cheaper options after his friend had left.
At about 3.20am, he then found a prostitute who was sleeping on a chair, at an alley along Geylang Lorong 20.
The woman had reportedly consumed “power pills” at a coffeeshop in the vicinity, in an attempt to make herself “feel alert”.
Patian approached the woman and tried to wake her up, and he then realised that the woman was in a deep sleep, before touching her chest and her private parts under her clothes repeatedly.
His actions were captured on a CCTV without him realising it.
He was seen lifting the woman from the chair and carrying her unconscious body to a secluded area that was surrounded by potted plants.
He laid the woman down on the ground before proceeding to have intercourse with the victim, and he then left the scene about 6 minutes later.
The victim was then seen stumbling back to her chair and falling asleep again about a minute later.
She later discovered a moist and sticky substance on her underwear and jeans when she woke up, and she then lodged a police report that she had been raped, and her phone was missing.
Patian’s fluids were found on the victim through genital swabs, and he was subsequently arrested about a week later on 4 March.