Farlynda Tan, 38, ran a modelling and social escort agency for over 4 years, arranging sex work for female models which included a 16-year-old girl, earning about $30,000.
She was given a jail term of 5 months and fined $920 on 19 February, for 2 charges under the Women’s Charter of procuring a girl for prostitution and living on her earnings.
Tan used to work as a freelance model and social escort before she opened her own modeling and social escort company, using the aliases Alexa and Elixir Wong.
She put up ads on Carousell seeking models, knowing that the jobs she offered (which included accompanying men) involved sexual services.
In April 2019, a 16-year-old girl came across Tan’s advertisement for a job and entired by her promise of fast cash, agreed to the offer.
Tan told the teen that her job would need her to be a “girlfriend” to the customers and there would be “intimacy” involved.
The teen asked if this involved sex and Tan said it did.
The victim wanted to earn fast cash so she sent her photos of her face and figure, lying that she was 19.
She then took a couple of jobs from Tan, where she collected $1.3k from her first customer and transferred $520 to Tan, and $1k from her second customer and transferred $400 to her.
Tan was arrested in November 2019 after the police received information that she was engaging in vice activities, and the police seized her phone and retrieved her messages, uncovering the offences.