A woman who was previously seen stuck outside a window ledge on the third floor of a building at 317 Jalan Besar.
The unit that she was stuck outside has since been revealed to be an illegal brothel that she was working in, and she was arrested before being charged.
The 38-year-old Thai national Sukphansa Jongdee pleaded guilty to living on the earning of the prostitution of a woman, with another charge of overstaying in Singapore for 56 days being considered during her sentencing
She was sentenced to 8 weeks imprisonment for her offences.
Passerby noticed she was stranded & called police for help
A woman was seen stranded on a window ledge on the third storey of a shophouse on the morning of 8 April at about 9.30 am, at 317 Jalan Besar.
A netizen shared that she was passing by the area when she spotted the woman standing on the window ledge and asked her if she required any help.
She asked the woman if she was okay and whether she needed her to call the police, but the woman kept telling her no and rejecting her help.
The netizen said that she could tell that the woman was not local by the way she spoke and despite her rejection, she went ahead and called the police.
The police soon arrived shortly after along with the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), and they managed to bring the woman back to safety.
The SCDF said that they had received a call for help on 8 April at about 10 am, along 317 Jalan Besar at a shophouse unit.
When SCDF officers arrived at the scene, they found a person standing on a ledge outside the window of a third-floor unit and they conducted forced entry into the unit.
They managed to get the woman back safely into the unit with the help of the police, and there were also no injuries reported in the incident.
Brothel
It was later revealed that the unit the woman was stuck in was a brothel and she was arrested and charged in court for working there as a cleaner.
She had climbed out of the bedroom window because she accidentally locked herself inside the room due to a faulty door lock.
After the police rescued her, they found condoms and lubricants inside the unit, and one of the prostitutes working there confessed to providing explicit services.
Overstayed in Singapore
Jongdee had arrived in Singapore from Thailand on a visit pass on 11 January this year, declaring that she was here for leisure despite intending to work here illegally.
She managed to get a job as a cleaner at various pubs through a person called “Wan”, and allegedly lost her passport before the expiration of her visit pass.
She then decided to stay here to earn more money through her illegal work, when a female vice syndicate member named “One” then hired her in late March to work as a cleaner for illegal brothels.
Her duties included running errands for the prostitutes, cleaning the premises and collecting earnings from two different brothels in Jalan Besar and Orchard.
She was paid $100 every time the prostitution earnings were collected and given accommodation at the illegal brothel in Orchard.
She worked with at least 4 prostitutes and helped with depositing the earnings in the mailbox of the Jalan Besar brothel, as well as keeping records of the prostitutes clients.