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  • Eugene Thuraisingam: Singaporeans Must Speak Up, Demand Change

    Eugene Thuraisingam: Singaporeans Must Speak Up, Demand Change

    Despite the resounding condemnation by Singaporeans of all races, Ridzuan’s execution proceeded.

    The life of a 32 year old snuffed out just like that. Under the shade of darkness, away from the scrutiny of the newspapers.

    That is how evil operates. The worst things we do are always done in secret and in darkness.

    Despite Ridzuan’s death, it was heartening to see not just M Ravi speaking up, but this time, Singaporeans of all races, from all walks of life, have stood up to be counted!

    The responsibility for Ridzuan’s death lies squarely at the feet of the Attorney-General, the Law Minister and his cabinet. That is the evil that exists.

    We must be aware of this. We must speak up. We must demand change!

    Our five stars dim tonight.
    Our son will be no more.
    Killed at the hands of strangers.
    At the orders of those who do not care.
    Our five stars dim tonight.
    For a cruel and unjust law.
    The fate of a life, in the hands of one. Who himself doesn’t really care.
    Our five stars dim tonight.
    With our million dollar men turned blind. Pretending not to see. Ministers, Judges and lawyers. Same as the accumulators of wealth.
    Hiding in the dimness, like rats scavenging for scraps.
    When does the new car come?
    Our five stars dim tonight.
    For a law that makes no sense.
    A law that’s cruel and unjust. Just as its makers, executors stand.
    Jeefrey has died. Ridzuan is next.
    Killed not in our names, but by the decree of one.
    Fear not my friend, we tread through this darkness.
    The sons of this soil have spoken. Regardless of race. Regardless of language. Regardless of religion.
    As our lungs shout as one, the stars will shine again!
    The people have spoken.

     

    Source: Eugene Thuraisingam

  • Student Expelled, Several Caned For Taking Upskirt Images Of Teacher

    Student Expelled, Several Caned For Taking Upskirt Images Of Teacher

    A student was expelled and several others caned after they were found to be in possession of upskirt images of six female teachers from their secondary school.

    Seven boys were found to have taken the photos and videos with their smartphones, and 23 others received and/or shared the images.

    The expelled boy had been involved in a similar incident at his previous school.

    He was found to be in possession of the images but he was not the one who had recorded them, said the principal.

    After receiving a tip-off about the incident, The New Paper yesterday contacted the all-boys school, which confirmed the incident.

    The principal told TNP that the school received information about the upskirt images on Oct 5 and immediately started an investigation to round up the culprits.

    He said: “We found there were students taking upskirt photos and videos, and sharing them. There were 30 students.”

    He also said the school decided to handle the matter internally after he gave the teachers the option of making a police report.

    But when contacted last night, the police told TNP that they had received a report on the incident, and investigations were ongoing. It is not known who had made the report.

    We are not naming the school to protect the victims.

    The 30 boys, most of whom are in Secondary 2 and 3, and a handful of them in Sec 1, had upskirt images of six female teachers.

    Some of the boys were caned to send a strong message – this is not how you treat women – to the school population.

    As it was during the exam period, the school punished them only after their exams were over.

    TWO STROKES EACH

    On Oct 19, the seven main culprits, who are in Sec 1 to Sec 3, were caned in front of their respective levels. They were given two strokes each on the buttocks.

    The principal said nine others who had received and shared the images were given similar caning but in his office.

    The remaining culprits were given suspended caning punishment, detention duties and told to return to school during the holidays for counselling sessions.

    Should they commit other offences, they will be caned.

    Their parents have been informed about the incident and the punishment meted out.

    On the caning of the students, the principal said he needed to send a strong message to them and the school population that this kind of behaviour would not be tolerated and would be dealt with swiftly.

    He added: “The school takes a serious view of misconduct by students.”

    On the expelled student, the principal said the boy had been given a second chance by the school after he was involved in a similar incident at another school.

    “We took him in and gave him a chance, but he did not use it. We want to help young people learn, that’s why we were prepared to give him that chance,” he said.

    “It was heartbreaking he did not take that opportunity.”

    The principal added that the six teachers were like his daughters and he had held many meetings with them.

    “To see someone do something like this to them, it’s very painful. I don’t want to see anyone hurt in this manner,” he said.

    The principal also said that the teachers were angry but he commended them for talking to the culprits to tell them that what they did was wrong.

    He added that when the boys realised what they had done, “the impact of how much they have hurt their teachers was very painful”.

    “They cried, they knew they were wrong. Their teachers forgave them.”

    The principal said he told the teachers they were free to make police reports, and he also informed the culprits’ parents what he had told the teachers.

    SAD

    “Some of them were sad their sons were so thoughtless and disrespectful towards their teachers,” said the principal.

    He added that the 30 culprits had been stripped of any awards they had won this year to show the severity of the situation. They are also not allowed to take their smartphones to school until further review.

    The principal said the school had reminded all students about good moral values and how technology should not be abused.

    He reminded all his students: “It’s not acceptable behaviour for young men. As men, they are supposed to protect the ladies, not take advantage of them. To do something like this is so very wrong.”

    It’s not acceptable behaviour for young men. As men, they are supposed to protect the ladies, not take advantage of them. To do something like this is so very wrong.

    – The school principal

    Expert: Emphasis should be on seeking help

    The behaviour of the boy who was expelled twice because of upskirt images in his phone may be leaning towards fetishism, said a psychiatrist in private practice, Dr Lim Boon Leng.

    The teenager will need to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to firm up such a diagnosis.

    Dr Lim told The New Paper yesterday: “Many of these deviant sexual practices start young.

    “When they are at the age of sexual awakening, sometimes, the way teenagers get sexual gratification becomes deviant.”

    But one thing is clear: Expulsion from school does nothing for the boy, he said.

    “It is in no way beneficial for the child, but the school has its own rules. It is its prerogative to decide what is best for the teachers and students,” he said.

    “Losing schoolmates and support may worsen the child’s stress levels, which may in turn worsen his behaviour.

    “But the emphasis, regardless of expulsion, should be on seeking help.”

    Lawyer Steven Lam of Templars Law agreed, saying: “If it’s not a first-time offence, maybe something needs to be done.

    “For example, he may need more than just caning. He may need to understand earlier rather than later that his actions carry consequences.

    “If a report had been made the first time (he offended), the boy would have been put under probation and he could have been sent for counselling.”

    Shooting upskirt photos or videos is included in the offences under insulting a woman’s modesty. So is circulating such content. Uploading it online aggravates the offence.

    Should schools make a police report on these offences?

    Yes, theoretically, said Mr Lam.

    “Strictly speaking, a report ought to be lodged. But bearing in mind the ages of the offenders, schools may exercise discretion,” he said.

    “If you look at the offence and age, the long and short of it is that if a report is made, the police will investigate and the child will be impacted – so schools may exercise that discretion.”

    Hilborne Law’s Rajan Supramaniamsaid that delicate situations involving young people should be dealt with sensitively.

    Schools can conduct internal investigations and rope in counsellors to deal with the situation.

    The onus is on the complainant – in this case, the teachers – to make police reports, he said.

    Dr Lim said that such offences among youngsters could be prevented if taboo subjects like fetishism were more openly discussed.

    “Sexual education now focuses on teenage pregnancy and abstinence. The curriculum can include deviant sexual practices, which are actually unhealthy, so that teenagers can learn about them when they undergo sexual education and seek help from counsellors,” he said.

    Parents also have a very important role to play.

    “What we notice is that during their children’s teenage years, parents tend to leave them on their own, thinking they are old enough to fend for themselves,” said Dr Lim.

    “The communication may be very minimal and the children may be going through difficulties without their parents knowing.

    “This can be prevented if parents can be more appropriately open in discussing sexual issues like gender, identity and sexual orientation.”

     

    Source: The New Paper

  • Man On Trial For Murdering Wife’s Younger Lover

    Man On Trial For Murdering Wife’s Younger Lover

    It started casually with her colleague offering to take her home after work.

    As the rides became regular, Madam Serene Goh grew close to Mr Dexmon Chua and they confided in each other about their marital problems.

    Despite being married, they took their intimacy to another level and started having sex.

    Their trysts carried on for about a year.

    Her husband, Chia Kee Chen, later found out about the affair.

    A year later, Mr Dexmon was found dead with severe head injuries.

    Chia is now on trial for murdering Mr Dexmon, 37, who worked as a materials analyst at food packaging and processing company Tetra Pak.

    Chia is accused of – with the help of Indonesian Febri Irwansyah Djatmiko – forcing Mr Dexmon into a van and assaulting him until he died.

    Another accomplice, Chua Leong Aik, drove them to Lim Chu Kang, near the area where Mr Dexmon’s badly decomposed body was found.

    Yesterday, Chia, 56, pleaded not guilty and said: “I did not do it. I did not murder him.”

    His 51-year-old wife, the mother of their two girls, took the stand for about 10 minutes. Her statement to the police was read out to the court.

    The court heard that Madam Goh was a sales executive at Tetra Pak from 1995 till September 2013, when she was retrenched.

    She had known Mr Dexmon since 2003 as they took the company transportation to and from work from their Choa Chu Kang homes.

    In July 2011, he contacted her on the company’s instant messaging system and offered her a lift home after work.

    She turned him down but accepted when he offered a second time.

    From then on, they grew closer and she would regularly hitch a ride home from him.

    They also started texting, calling and communicating via the office instant messaging system.

    It was also around then that Madam Goh received an overseas call from a woman who claimed she was Chia’s wife in Indonesia, where he owns a fish farm.

    Madam Goh told the authorities this was not the first time she had received such a call.

    When she confronted her husband, he denied having an Indonesian wife.

    While she claimed she trusted Chia, she began confiding in Mr Dexmon, knowing he was married to a Thai woman.

    He did the same, sharing his marital problems with her.

    In August 2011, Mr Dexmon suggested to Madam Goh that they become intimate, and she agreed.

    They would meet after work and have sex in his car, at his home, and once at a hotel.

    ‘GUILTY’

    Madam Goh said in her statement that she felt “guilty” during the affair with Mr Dexmon.

    But they both could not bring themselves to stop the affair.

    In June 2012, with her permission, he recorded themselves having sex, twice, for “sentimental purposes”.

    They stopped having sex soon after and began quarrelling often, but still communicated over the phone.

    Later that year, Chia found Mr Dexmon’s text messages on his wife’s phone and confronted her when their two daughters were asleep.

    She admitted to the affair. She also said there were videos and pictures of her having sex with Mr Dexmon, which she feared he would spread.

    Enraged, Chia called Mr Dexmon using her mobile phone and scolded him in Hokkien, telling him to end the relationship.

    Mr Dexmon allegedly told Chia that he had deleted the racy videos and photographs.

    Madam Goh said she stopped her relationship with Mr Dexmon after that.

    In early 2013, Mr Dexmon mistakenly sent Madam Goh a Chinese New Year greeting through Whatsapp.

    Chia found out and became agitated, but Madam Goh assured him their affair was over. That was the last time they spoke about Mr Dexmon.

    After his wife’s testimony as a prosecution witness, it was the defence’s turn to cross-examine her.

    But Chia told his lawyer Peter Fernando not to do so.

    In the early hours of Dec 29, 2013, Madam Goh was awakened by a call from her husband, who asked for the phone number of her brother Goh Beng Guat.

    Prosecutors said Chia went on to ask Mr Goh for help to carry Mr Chua’s body, but he said no.

    That afternoon, Chia, Madam Goh and their two daughters left for a family trip to Johor Baru.

    On Dec 31, 2013, they returned and were stopped by the authorities at Woodlands Checkpoint.

    Chia was arrested that day and later charged with murder.

    The trial continues today.

    ABOUT THE CASE

    Chia Kee Chen is accused of killing Mr Dexmon Chua between 9.44pm on Dec 28, 2013, and 3.17pm on Dec 29, 2013.

    Deputy Public Prosecutor Eugene Lee said in the prosecution’s opening statement that Chia allegedly enlisted the help of Indonesian Febri Irwansyah Djatmiko, 33, who operated Chia’s fish farm in Malaysia, to carry out the murder.

    In return, Chia allegedly promised to set up a fish farm for him in Indonesia.

    He also roped in a third man, Chua Leong Aik, 66, a cleaning supervisor.

    On Dec 28, 2013, at about 10pm to 11pm, the three men lay in wait for Mr Dexmon at the multi-storey carpark near his Choa Chu Kang Avenue 4 home, said DPP Lee.

    Febri and Chia approached Mr Dexmon after he had parked and alighted from his car, and allegedly assaulted him.

    They were said to have forced Mr Dexmon into a van that Chia had borrowed, before tying up his arms and feet. Mr Dexmon was then allegedly assaulted some more by Chia and Febri until he died.

    Chua was instructed by Chia to drive to Lim Chu Kang and told the authorities he heard banging sounds from the back of the van and smelled blood en route.

    He later stopped and got out of the van as he was frightened and Chia allegedly took over the wheel.

    Chia allegedly drove to the military live firing area in Lim Chu Kang and disposed of Mr Dexmon’s body.

    They went to a Lim Chu Kang fish farm where they spent an hour washing the van.

    Chia and his family, joined by Febri, then took a trip to Malaysia.

    Febri, who is still at large, is said to have returned to Indonesia by ferry from Malaysia.

    Chia was arrested as he returned to Singapore.

    In January, Chua was jailed for five years for abduction and voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Mr Dexmon.

    Yesterday, DPP Lee said Mr Dexmon suffered extensive injuries to his face and head.

    The prosecution will call over 80 witnesses during the two-week trial to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Chia murdered Mr Dexmon.

    If convicted, Chia faces the death penalty or life imprisonment.

     

    Source: The New Paper

  • Be Careful Of Robber Pretending To Look For Temporary Accomodation

    Be Careful Of Robber Pretending To Look For Temporary Accomodation

    Beware of this guy,he will claim that he is studying in nus for doctor.He will ask for tempervery accomadation.

    Recently he stole away 28k worth of gold frm 174D,Hougang Ave 1.

    Wanted by Police.

    Pls share and call 999 if u see this guy.

    Thank You.

     

    Source: Micheal Ragu

  • Prosecutors Seek More Jail Time For Yang Yin, Whose ‘Criminal Odyssey’ Lasted Years

    Prosecutors Seek More Jail Time For Yang Yin, Whose ‘Criminal Odyssey’ Lasted Years

    Former tour guide Yang Yin’s “criminal odyssey” lasted for the five years – the entirety of his stay in Singapore – during which he committed crimes against wealthy widow Chung Khin Chun, Government agencies and multiple individuals and businesses, prosecutors said on Wednesday (Sep 28).

    Aside from the 10 to 12-year jail term they have sought for Yang’s misappropriation of S$1.1 million from Mdm Chung, prosecutors urged the court to impose another two-and-a-half to three years’ jail on Yang, following his conviction in May of 120 charges.

    These charges include 110 counts for falsifying receipts involving S$186,900 showing payments to a shell company Yang set up to gain permanent residency here, as well as four charges under the Companies Act and three each for cheating and immigration offences.

    “This is a foreign national who has spent almost his entire five years in Singapore either offending or preparing to offend,” Deputy Public Prosecutor Nicholas Tan said on Wednesday. “Instead of being productive, Yang was prolific in generating a compendium of false documentation.”

    The court heard Yang had fooled five Government agencies – including the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, Central Provident Fund Board, Ministry of Manpower and the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority – on his way to obtaining permanent residency here.

    “(Yang) displayed extraordinary brazenness in offending”, DPP Tan said. “He had no qualms in conjuring up an entire business … (creating) an entire fiction, inventing customers, revenues and salaries from thin air.”

    Yang registered a sham business – a music and dance school – and duped MOM into granting him an Employment Pass, which he later used to shore up his permanent residency application to the ICA. He also tricked IRAS and CPF by paying small sums of income tax – which he later called “charity” and “giving back to society” – to reflect his employment at a seemingly profitable company, prosecutors said.

    “This is the character of Yang’s stay in Singapore. Although this epic tale is nearly at its conclusion, in this final chapter we still see a lack of genuine remorse … I’m hard-pressed to find even a single indication of compunction, of regret, for what he has done,” DPP Tan said.

    Defence lawyer Irving Choh urged the court to impose a shorter jail term of one to two years, citing hardship on Yang’s family. “My client has a wife, two young children and aged parents to support”, Mr Choh said, adding Yang had been the sole breadwinner of the family and that his parents are not in good health.

    Prosecutors contested this, saying Yang had voluntarily left his family behind for five years. His first child was a baby when he first came to Singapore, and his second child was born while he was here, DPP Tan said. “He has demonstrated (his willingness to leave) his young children, his elderly parents, to come to Singapore. So I think there is some hypocrisy in that argument.”

    Yang will be sentenced on Thursday morning.

    “DEEP BETRAYAL”

    Yang also faces two charges for criminal breach of trust, for which he will be sentenced separately on Friday.

    Yang pocketed S$1.1 million from Madam Chung during his stay here, in what prosecutors called a “deep betrayal” of the widow, 89, who had given Yang control over her assets – worth millions of dollars – trusting him to use the money to look after her in her golden years.

    Instead, in the years that followed, Yang nearly emptied the widow’s bank account. In early 2010, Mdm Chung had S$2.7 million in liquid assets. By August 2014, shortly before Yang’s arrest, the widow’s bank account contained less than S$10,000. She was none the wiser.

    Yang had “intentionally fostered an environment of unquestioning trust with Mdm Chung … by capitalising on her age and lack of familial support”, DPP Sanjiv Vaswani told the court at a hearing earlier this month.

    To date, the true whereabouts of the S$1.1 million remain unknown. Yang has not made any restitution. Another S$1,128,004 remains frozen in his bank account.

    According to Yang, Mdm Chung, whom he met in 2006, had convinced him to leave his wife and two children and move to Singapore to live with her in her Gerald Crescent bungalow as her “grandson”. He moved here in 2009, and by February 2010, Mdm Chung had made a will leaving all her assets to him.

    When Mdm Chung was diagnosed with dementia in 2014, her niece Hedy Mok stepped in and took Yang to court. Yang was subsequently arrested and charged.

     

    Source: ChannelNewsAsia