A 33-year-old maid, pleaded guilty to 2 counts of recording a victim in a private act and 2 counts of distributing an intimate video of him to another person, as well as to TikTok.
She was sentenced to one year and 5 months imprisonment earlier today, with another 9 more similar charges being considered during her sentencing.
She faced maximum penalties which were doubled because the victim was considered a vulnerable person.
A gag order has been imposed against revealing the identity of the victim as well as his residential address.
What happened?
The elderly victim was diagnosed with brain conditions in December 2019, before being referred to the National Eye Centre following his discharge from Tan Tock Seng Hospital in January 2020.
He has very poor vision in both of his eyes with little hope of recovery, and he needed long-term follow-up for glaucoma control in order to preserve his hand movements, vision and his perception of light.
He depended on the maid for daily activities such as brushing his teeth and taking showers.
The elderly man’s son hired her to take care of his father on 1 February 2020.
In one of the showering sessions, the maid turned on her camera and recorded herself helping the elderly man shower and brush his teeth.
She then helped him stand up, which exposed his private areas to the camera, and she then wrapped a towel around the victim.
She was also seen in the video staring and smiling at the camera, before sending the video footage to someone else via Whatsapp.
On 1 January 2021, she turned on her camera again in one of the showering sessions, with the intention of posting the video onto her TikTok account.
The video was then posted onto TikTok but she then removed it after an hour after she was criticised for her behavior, but the video was still on her phone.
The video was then re-uploaded onto Facebook by an unknown netizen, with the face of the victim censored.
The elderly man’s son then saw the post on Facebook and saw his father and maid, he then made a police report.
She had taken a total of 7 videos of the victim, with 4 of them capturing the man’s private parts. 5 of the videos were sent to other persons.