Andy Koh Ju Hua, 30-years-old, pleaded guilty to four counts of voluntarily causing hurt, one of which is under the newly enhanced provisions for victims in close relationships with the accused.

Koh started abusing his elderly mother in 2017 because he was stressed with school work.

He reportedly starved her and didn’t allow her to shower to make noise, as well as assaulting her vaginal area with a metal padlock and with his knee.

During the early years of the abuse, his mother refused to file a police report because she didn’t want to jeopardise her son’s future.

She was hospitalised thrice and put in a safe house but each time, she would insist on returning to her family.

Once, after Koh used his kneecap to hit his mother’s vaginal area, she was found by her niece in an unkempt state and her niece wanted to call the police, but the victim told her not to do so, also lying to the hospital staff that she fell down, in order not to implicate her son.

In December 2018, Koh used a metal padlock to hit his mother’s vaginal area, before hitting her face with his hands, at their family home.

She was found with swelling on her body and her gown was bloodied over the vaginal area.

His mother didn’t retaliate and just let him take out his frustrations on her.

In June last year, Koh punched his mother in the mouth thrice, causing her to bleed, resulting in her running out of the house out of desperation.

His mother went to her relatives for helped, and they described seeing her as very dirty, frail, thin and sunken.

Koh shed a few tears in court as he said:

“I love my mother a lot and I do not know why I committed all those silly things to her. I need to undergo treatment to overcome my psychotic disorder, I hope to undergo treatment and cure myself so that I can live happily ever after with my mother. She is not young anymore and I certainly wish to take care of her in her remaining days.”

The case has been adjourned to a later date.

Namaisivayam Sundar, 57-years-old, allegedly had a fever following his return from a business trip, and the Singapore PR was then sent to NCID for a Covid-19 test.

However, Sundar allegedly went to Textile Centre for a massage.

His Covid-19 test result came back positive the next day.

The incident reportedly happened on 25 March, last year.

Sundar was charged in court on 29 January this year for one count under the Infectious Diseases Act.

Not the only offender

Four other people were also alleged to have went to public places despite being issued MC for acute respiratory symptoms, according to MOH.

Bawani Murugaiah, 37-years-old was on three 5-day MCs between 22 July and 29 August last year, of which she allegedly left her home on six of the days to ferry passengers as a private-hire car driver.

She was charged on 28 December last year for 5 counts under the Infectious Diseases Act.

Foo Suan Rong Nick, 22-years-old, was given 3 days MC by a polyclinic after being diaggnosed with acute respiratory infection and he allegedly went to Ion Orchard and Orchard Central after his clinic visit.

The next day, he allegedly went to Woodlands and Somerset.

Ang Siu Yen, 22-years-old, was on a 4-day MC after being diagnosed with upper respiratory tract infection and allegedly left home while on MC to go to Junction 9 Shopping Mall, Bugis Junction as well as the Yew Tee area.

Abdul Rashid Sugianto, 30-years-old, was on two 5-day MCs for acute upper respiratory tract infection, when he allegedly left his home thrice to visit Tampines West Community Centre and Geylang.

Chock Soon Seng, 43-years-old, pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual penetration involving underaged boys.

Fourteen other charges will be taken into consideration during sentencing.

Chock’s first victim is a 15-year-old boy, who posted on ad on Locanto, looking for women.

Chock responded to his ad but the boy said that he was not homosexual, but Chock persuaded him to “experiment”, explaining to the boy that it was normal for straight men to perform sexual acts on one another.

The court heard that Chock made no attempt to verify the kid’s age, only offering to pay him for the acts.

Chock then went to the teen’s home on 23 A[ril 2018 and they performed oral sex on each other, before meeting again at the boy’s home for mutual sexual acts on 11 May 2018.

Chock’s second victim was a 13-year-old boy that he met through the gay dating app Grindr in 2018.

The boy told him that he was in Primary 6.

Chock met the boy at a staircase landing of a multi-storey carpark on 15 April 2018 and they performed oral sex on each other.

The Primary 6 boy’s mother then discovered sex-related conversations on his mobile phone in June 2019, and she then alerted the police, who then arrested Chock.

Not his first offence

In 2010, Chock was sentenced to 10 months jail for persuading two 13-year-old boys to let him watch them perform a sexual act.

And then in 2014, Chock was again sentenced to 3 years jail for multiple offences that include sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy and threatening to post the boy’s naked pictures online.

Chock will be sentenced for his latest crimes on 9 April 2021.

Wong Wei Mun Joseph, 20-years-old, pleaded guilty to two charges of criminal trespass and one charge of voluntarily causing hurt.

Wong reportedly trespassed into several GV movie halls to watch movies without buying tickets, he would watch multiple movies in the halls and leave halfway through to avoid being caught by the staff.

On 16 October 2020, a GV staff member noticd Wong exiting a cinema hall at J8 and he recalled that Wong had preveiously entered tha cinema halls without a valid ticket.

So he approached Wong and asked to see his movie ticket, to which Wong said that he left it in the cinema.

The staff then told Wong that he would bring him to see the manager, Wong then tried to escape.

The staff then gave chase and restrained Wong but was scratched on his face and hand before the security guards intervened.

Wong then admitted to his offences.

However, on 11 February 2021, Wong was caught again; A staff member at GV Jurong Point was clearing a hall after a movie screening, when she noticed Wong standing near the exit of the movie hall.

Wong noticed the staff member looking at him so he took the stairs down but then came back a few minutes later.

The staff then asked him to leave using the same stairs but Wong insisted on exiting through the entrance and told her it was because he needed to use the toilet.

She recalled not seeing him enter with a valid ticket and recognised him from previous incidents.

So she brought him to the manager’s office to detain him, but the manager was not inside the office at the time.

So she brought him to the ticketing counter to ask her colleagues for help, but wong scratched her wrist and broke free, running away.

He thed fled into the mall and disappeared into the crowd.

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