meng.huat Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 Married man pleads guilty to illicitly filming hundreds of women over 13 years in 'most prolific' case SINGAPORE: Over 13 years, a married man took hundreds of photos and videos of women changing or in other states of undress, using a host of household items with hidden cameras. These women included his family, friends and fellow church members, including prepubescent minors. The 35-year-old man pleaded guilty on Monday (Feb 17) to four charges of insulting women's modesty, with another nine charges taken into consideration. Calling it the "most prolific" case of its kind, the prosecution asked for three years' jail. The man cannot be named due to gag orders protecting the identities of victims. The court heard that he took upskirt photos and videos of women relieving themselves in the toilet, showering or changing between January 2003 and April 2016. He did this on more than 800 occasions in 2011, 2012 and 2013 alone. The man had two main methods of recording his victims' actions: He would either film them manually with the camera function of his mobile phone, or leave the cameras hidden in toilets and retrieve them later. He saved the images and videos in folders labelled "church", "family" or "cotton on". If he knew the women, he would add their names as suffixes to his files. For women he did not know, he added details such as type of clothing or other physical descriptors to the file names, court documents showed. (TOOBIANTAI already!!) WOMEN TARGETED AT HOME, WORK AND CHURCH Among his collection of hidden-camera devices were spy watches, pens, camera sticks and a clock. The items, which he bought online or at Sim Lim Square, contained video-recording devices but were disguised as innocuous household items, said the prosecutor. Court documents listed five locations where the accused targeted victims. He filmed women changing at several Cotton On clothing outlets, with clips showing them in their underwear. He also took videos of his friends and family members changing, relieving themselves in the shower in a toilet at his own home. Some clips were taken up women's skirts or dresses on public transport. A camera was also left in a toilet at his church, and captured images of prepubescent minors, the court heard. On one occasion, the man filmed a bride and her bridesmaids in a hotel room. CAUGHT BY COLLEAGUE His years of crimes were exposed when he was discovered by a female colleague in April 2016. The victim had gone to the toilet to try on a dress that she had just received as a birthday present. The accused noticed her walking towards the washroom and followed her. He turned on his phone's recording function and held it up to the window of the women's toilet. The victim was undressing herself when she noticed a phone pointed at her. She tried to snatch it, but the accused managed to pull his phone away before running off. As he fled, the victim looked through the window and recognised her colleague. She told her other colleagues what had happened and lodged a police report the next day. The accused deleted the footage he had recorded of her, the court heard. When interviewed by the police, the accused denied being the person who filmed the victim and said he had not been at the crime scene, but was instead with other colleagues. POLICE SPRING SURPRISE RAID However, investigations unearthed incriminating closed-circuit television footage. The investigation officer noticed that the accused's Internet browsing history included searches on how to delete documents from his phone. The officer also noticed that despite the many photo and video editing applications on the accused's phone, there were only a few photographs. The police executed a surprise raid at the accused's home on Apr 20, 2016 and seized six cameras, five spy watches, two spy pens, three spy camera sticks, one spy clock, several hard drives, four hard disks and an iPhone. One hard drive was found to contain 821 obscene pictures and 692 obscene videos. Defence lawyer T M Sinnadurai asked for an adjournment to file written submissions on the sentence. Responding to the prosecutor's push for three years' jail, the defence counsel said: "We have not seen such a sentence for such an offence before." The prosecutor said: "This would be a rather unprecedented case, based on available precedents. This is by far the most prolific." The man will return to court for mitigation and sentencing on Mar 23. Source: CNA/ll(aj) https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/married-man-pleads-guilty-to-illicitly-filming-hundreds-of-women-12442034?cid=h3_referral_inarticlelinks_24082018_cna Man who illicitly filmed 1,391 clips of women over 13 years in 'most prolific' case gets jail SINGAPORE: A married man who took nearly 1,400 videos of women in states of undress over 13 years was sentenced to two years and three months' jail on Thursday (Jun 4). The 35-year-old man cannot be named due to gag orders protecting the identities of the victims, which include his family, friends and fellow church members and prepubescent minors. The prosecution had called for three years' jail, describing the case as the "most prolific" of its kind. "None of the (previous cases) to date come close in scale to match the accused's depraved behaviour, either by duration of offending, or by the sheer number of 1,391 videos recorded," said Deputy Public Prosecutor Kenneth Kee. Between January 2003 and April 2016, the man took upskirt photos and videos of women relieving themselves in the toilet and showering or changing. He did this on more than 800 occasions in 2011, 2012 and 2013 alone, and used a host of common household items disguised as spy cameras. These include five spy watches, two spy pens and a spy clock. He filmed women changing at retail shops, and also filmed his friends and family in the shower at his own home. He also took upskirt clips of women on public transport, and left a camera device in a toilet at his church where he captured images of prepubescent minors. On one occasion, he also filmed a bride and her bridesmaids in a hotel room. He was caught red-handed by a colleague in April 2016. The woman was trying on a dress she had received for her birthday in the toilet when she noticed the phone aimed at her. She tried to snatch it, but the man managed to pull his phone away before running off. As he fled, the victim looked through the window and recognised her colleague. District Judge Adam Nakhoda noted that while the man had been diagnosed with voyeurism after a psychiatric assessment, it was merely "a descriptor of deviant behaviour". There was no diagnosis of an impulse control disorder, said the judge, who rejected arguments that the man was "exposed to sexual priming from a young age" and had "a sick mind". He accepted that the man has expressed remorse and pleaded guilty, but noted that he was actually caught red-handed. The man pleaded guilty in February to four charges of insulting women's modesty, with another nine charges taken into consideration. The penalties for insulting a woman's modesty are a jail term of up to a year, a fine, or both. Source: CNA/ll https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/man-film-1391-clips-photos-women-13-years-jail-12804242 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ManOfTheHour Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 No surprise he goes to church 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 3 minutes ago, ManOfTheHour said: No surprise he goes to church Wonder which one he goes 🤔🤔 Shalala lala la la ~ 🌠 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huat Zai Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 Just now, Chestnut said: Wonder which one he goes 🤔🤔 There are only 3 mega churches in SG, pick one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 1 minute ago, Huat Zai said: There are only 3 mega churches in SG, pick one. They say is mega church meh? Shalala lala la la ~ 🌠 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huat Zai Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 1 minute ago, Chestnut said: They say is mega church meh? Real churches clean their own toilets and are so tiny, anyone walking into the wrong gender toilet will be spotted immediately. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynical Ape Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 1 Good content = Topics that genuinely encourages and stimulates interaction/banter. Bad content = Clickbaits, brag posts and social media news feed that nobody gives a flying fuck about + waste of server storage space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 6 minutes ago, Cynical Ape said: She close her eyes fr wat Shalala lala la la ~ 🌠 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynical Ape Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 Just now, Chestnut said: She close her eyes fr wat Maybe she trying to calm herself after getting triggered. 1 Good content = Topics that genuinely encourages and stimulates interaction/banter. Bad content = Clickbaits, brag posts and social media news feed that nobody gives a flying fuck about + waste of server storage space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManOfTheHour Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 1 minute ago, Chestnut said: She close her eyes fr wat scared to see you scratch and sniff 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManOfTheHour Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 1 minute ago, Cynical Ape said: Maybe she trying to calm herself after getting triggered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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