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Man who secretly filmed female staff in primary school toilet over two days jailed 24 weeks
Amir Hussain
PUBLISHED FEB 18, 2016, 7:11 PM SGT
SINGAPORE - A 25-year-old administrative staff at a primary school secretly took eight videos of female staff using the toilet on two consecutive days.
On Thursday, Jondave Ong Han Wei was jailed for 24 weeks.
He pleaded guilty to four charges of insulting the modesty of a woman.
Another four counts of the same were taken into consideration during sentencing.
A district court heard that Ong was employed by recruitment firm People Advantage as a school programme executive, and did administrative work at Keming Primary School in Bukit Batok.
On July 1 last year, he went to a common staff toilet on the ground floor and attached his mobile phone to the sink pipe underneath the basin, using cable ties to secure the phone to the pipe.
He made sure the phone camera was pointing towards the toilet bowl, and switched on the camera's video recording function.
Between 9.46am and 10.08am, he recorded six women using the toilet.
He took three other similar videos at the same toilet later that afternoon. The longest video played for 32 minutes.
The next day, he again recorded four female staff relieving themselves at the same toilet.
At about 6.46pm, however, a staff spotted the camera and informed the police.
In all, the modesty of up to 35 women could have been insulted.
In mitigation, Ong, who did not have a lawyer, pleaded for leniency. He said his offence was out of character and told the court that he had apologised to the school staff.
For insulting the modesty of a woman, he could have been jailed for up to a year and also fined on each charge.
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TTSH doctor suspended for 4 months for taking upskirt videos of 2 women
Salma Khalik
Senior Health Correspondent
PUBLISHED JUN 1, 2021, 2:42 PM SGT
SINGAPORE - A doctor has had his licence suspended for four months for bringing disrepute to the profession. He was caught taking upskirt videos of two women in 2016.
Dr Deshan Kumar Rajeswaran was caught in the act at an
NTUC FairPrice supermarket at
AMK Hub in July that year.
The police and the Attorney-General's Chambers served him a 24-month conditional warning in October 2016. He satisfied the condition of refraining from similar or other criminal conduct.
The Singapore Police Force had informed the Singapore Medical Council (
SMC) of the incident and of the warning issued.
In December that year, the
SMC filed a letter of complaint to the chairman of its complaints panel. This panel looks at all complaints and decides if any has merit and, if so, the action that needs to follow.
In April 2017, a complaints committee was set up to investigate the matter.
The doctor, a consultant rehabilitation physician at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, admitted to the fault in August that year.
He said that his actions were done on impulse as a result of a prolonged period of stress and anxiety at work and at home.
In his written explanation, Dr Deshan said he had sought psychiatric help, and had been attending psychological therapy sessions, as well as maintaining good physical, emotional, psychological and social support systems.
The committee issued a letter of advice to the doctor in December 2017, encouraging him to continue with his treatment.
In January 2018, the
SMC wrote to the Minister for Health appealing against the committee's decision. In May 2019, the Ministry of Health (
MOH) directed the
SMC to appoint a disciplinary tribunal to look into the matter.
Dr Deshan was informed in March 2020. Because of the circuit breaker measures for Covid-19, the pre-inquiry conference was delayed till June.
The tribunal said the harm caused was "moderate", but culpability was low as it had not been premeditated.
It noted that the doctor had been "suffering from persistent depressive disorder" at that time, caused by stress both at work and at home.
He has been treated for this and it no longer affects him. However, the tribunal recommends that he continues with his treatment every two to three months.
As penalty, it imposed a four-month suspension, followed by conditional registration for a year during which he may only work under supervision. Other conditions include no "private consultations without a chaperone present when attending to female patients".
He was also censured and has to pay the cost of the proceedings. The decision was published on the
SMC website on June 1.
