A 56-year-old man pleaded guilty to 4 counts of insulting a woman’s modesty and 2 counts of using criminal force.
He was sentenced to 11 weeks jail on 15 June for exposing himself repeatedly and stroking his genitals in front of his female tenant in 2018.
He was also fined $2,000 but will serve an additional 2 weeks in prison because he cannot pay the fine.
The man cannot be named due to gag orders to protect the identity of the victim.
He reportedly told the judge that he accidentally exposed himself to the woman because the wind had blown the toiler door open while he was using it.
He also claimed that he slipped on washing powder on the floor after showering, and hit himself after something caught on his towel, leading him to stroke himself because he was in pain.
What happened?
In May 2018, the man (who was the victim’s landlord) suddenly held her hand and asked her to eat, to which she said no.
Later that same month, he grabbed her hand when she walked past the sofa where he was sitting; the victim then flung his hand away and told him not to get touchy.
Some time around June to July 2018, the victim was walking out of the kitchen when she saw him standing in the toilet naked and stroking himself; the two made eye contact, after which she asked him what he was doing.
That same week, the victim was washing something in the kitchen when she turned around and saw the man completely naked.
She told him off but the man only smiled and said that he wanted to use the toilet to take a shower.
After 2 more incidents of indecent exposure, the victim confided in her friends, who eventually reported the incidents to the police on 23 December 2018.
The victim said that she was worried it would affect her work permit so she didn’t report the matter.
One week after reporting the incidents to the police, the man knocked on her room door and asked to talk to her, to which she then called the police and avoided meeting him.
The two were alone at home at the time.
The victim also recorded a conversation with the man; she asked him why he appeared in the nude behind her, the man said:
“You have not agreed to me for so long… When you don’t give the fish to the cat, what do you think it will feel? I am a man, you think I am made of wood, is it?“
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