Kolambage Dhanushka Chamara Perera, a 25-year-old Sri Lankan in Singapore on a student pass, pleaded guilty to one count of being in possession of 25 explicit video files of children.

Another charge of possessing more than 2,000 videos which were explicit in nature, as well as content of bestiality (human-animals intercourse).

He was sentenced to 1-month imprisonment on 7 February.

What happened?

Kolambage joined a Whatsapp group that was used to share obscene videos; he had met the administrator of the group, Hindakumbure Charindu Dilshan Rajapaksha, 29, who told him to create a Whatsapp group with many Sri Lankans in it.

Kolambage then joined a group called “Singapore Boys Wela group”, which was created in 2019 and it was originally created for the members to share news from their hometown.

However, they later started sharing explicit materials inside the group chat.

Kolambage remained inside the group despite the content being shared and he told the authorities that he was “not really interested” in the explicit videos involving children.

He claimed that he tried his best to delete the underage videos but might have missed out on deleting some of them as there were too many.

His offenses were discovered on 6 August 2020 at about 1pm when a Public Transport Security Command patrol officer saw him behaving suspiciously at Lavender MRT station.

A check was then conducted on him by the officer and his colleagues and they discovered that he had a group chat with a photo of a silhouette of a man and woman engaging in intimacy.

They then opened the group chat and found more than 6,000 media files, before arrested him and seizing his phone.

The explicit videos of children were then later found.