SOURCE: The Straits Times
POLICE, laboratory technicians, a psychiatrist and a urologist were
all harnessed to look at the mystery of a drop of semen on the
thigh of a woman on a bus.
Did it appear because of a hair-trigger ejaculation of a male
passenger – said to be a rare condition?
Or was it the act of a pervert?
The 24-year-old woman had cried molest after she claimed an
undergraduate on the bus brushed his private parts against her
thigh.
When the police were called, they found a drop of semen on the
woman’s thigh.
DNA tests showed that it belonged to Chong Weien, 28, who was then
a psychology student at the National University of Singapore
(NUS).
He has since graduated at the top of his class and has been
accepted to do his Master’s programme with an Australian
university, the court was told.
But this may have to wait as he was found guilty of one charge of
outrage of modesty after a trial. He was jailed 15 months’ and
given three strokes of the cane.
The prosecution is appealing against the sentence, while Chong is
appealing against his conviction and sentence. He is now out on
bail.
His defence was that he suffers from spontaneous ejaculation – a
condition which causes him to ejaculate without physical
stimulation. He claimed this was what happened on the bus.
Two experts, a psychiatrist and a urologist, who examined him,
testified that this was possible.
Crowded
The disturbance on the bus happened at about 9.30pm on 14 Sep,
2006.
The court heard that Chong boarded it at NUS and stood next to the
woman, who was sitting along the aisle.
The seats on both sides of the bus were elevated. Because of this,
his crotch was level with her thigh.
He was wearing a T-shirt and a pair of shorts. He had a haversack
with him and was holding his jacket in his left hand at waist
level.
The woman said that as the bus got more crowded, Chong moved closer
to her, so much so that she could hear him breathing.
She then felt a warm object on her right thigh and a wet sensation
later on.
She suspected that it was Chong’s private parts. But she could not
see what it was because it was blocked by his jacket.
When the bus reached a stop, she stood up and asked him: “What did
you do on my leg?”
She then snatched his jacket and slapped him, causing his glasses
to fall off.
He asked her if they could talk outside the bus. So when the doors
opened, she got off, followed by Chong.
Her male friend, who was on the same bus, got off at the same stop
to assist her.
She said that Chong asked her if there had been a misunderstanding,
and if he had stepped on her feet.
The woman told the court that she had not seen Chong exposing
himself.
But she said that after they alighted, Chong had offered to let her
look in his bag.
She found some CDs and a plastic bottle of water, which was not
warm and had not leaked.
As such, her conclusion was that those items could not have caused
the warm sensation that she had felt on her thigh.
She was still furious and hit Chong a few times before she was
pulled away by her friend.
That was when her friend noticed wet spots on Chong’s jacket.
He took it, smelled it and realised it was
semen.
Her friend then told Chong: “This is yours, right? We are all men,
you should know what this is.”
The woman claimed Chong apologised and told her he would not do it
again. She then called the police.
But was it possible that Chong’s semen ended up on the woman’s
thigh after she snatched his jacket from him on the bus?
She told the court that she had grabbed it with her right hand, and
the jacket had come into contact with her left hand, causing it to
feel wet. She then wiped it with the jacket.
She insisted she did not touch her thigh with her hands because she
felt they were dirty.
In his defence, Chong said that he realised he had ejaculated only
when the woman’s friend commented about the wet spots on his
jacket.
He said it had happened twice before, when he woke up in the
morning and when he was queuing at an ATM. There was no mention of
when the two incidents occurred.
Chong denied brushing himself against the woman’s thigh.
He said that he would have to untie the string on his waistband to
expose his private parts, which was a difficult task on a crowded
bus.
‘Untruthful’
How did his jacket become stained with semen then?
Chong explained that it was because the legs of his shorts were
loose and part of his jacket was hanging below the seam of his
shorts.
But District Judge Jill Tan said she found Chong to be an
untruthful and unconvincing witness.
He had a ready answer for every question that was put to him, and
she found his evidence to be too detailed and well-explained at
every turn, such that it seemed rehearsed.
She pointed out how Chong had recalled shifting around his
haversack on the bus. But this seemed to be his attempt to show
that what the woman had felt was his haversack and not his private
parts.
The judge also said that the crux of the case was whether Chong had
brushed his penis against the woman.
As for Chong’s medical condition of spontaneous ejaculation, it was
a “secondary issue”.
The judge said that even if the accused had a spontaneous
ejaculation, there was no reason for him to brush his penis against
the victim’s thigh.
It was not Chong’s first brush with the law.
In 2002, he was jailed 15 months’ and given three strokes of the
cane, also for outrage of modesty.
Chong, who was 21 then, had been teaching two girls, aged 13 and
14, to play the drums. During the lesson, he placed his penis in
their left hand, which he had earlier told them to put behind their
back.
Chong continued with his studies at NUS after his release from
prison.
In his mitigation, Chong’s lawyer, Mr Ravinderpal Singh, asked the
court to impose a minimal sentence without caning.
He said that the victim was not a minor. He added that Chong had
done volunteer work with ex-offenders and had also participated in
various community projects.
For outrage of modesty, Chong could have been jailed two years and
caned.
“...too detailed and well-explained at every turn, such that it
seemed rehearsed...
– District Judge Jill Tan, who found Chong to be an untruthful and
unconvincing witness, on Chong’s answers in court.
“Even if the accused had a spontaneous ejaculation, there was no
reason for him to brush his penis against the victim’s
thigh.”
– District Judge Jill Tan
CHONG Weien was diagnosed as suffering from spontaneous ejaculation
by two doctors.
One of them, Dr Lionel Lim, a consultant psychiatrist, told the
court that it was an uncommon but recognised medical
condition.
He saw Chong but did not conduct a physical examination on
him.
But, based on Chong’s previous medical reports, Dr Lim’s opinion
was that he was sexually aroused easily.
Those reports stated that Chong had ejaculated without physical
stimulation while being examined.
Dr Lim added that the condition is a sexual dysfunction.
Dr Joe Lee, a urologist at the National University Hospital, also
took the stand.
He had given Chong a body checkup but said he was unable to comment
on the amount of stimulation Chong needed to ejaculate.
He added that sufferers have poor control over their ejaculation,
which can happen with just a light touch or an urgency to
urinate.
WTF... smelling somebody else's sperm... this guy is crazy..
