Students
spreading teachers' sex video
Students of international school here find
explicit video of their teachers in school's computer
server
REPORT: KOH HUI THENG
STUDENTS see their teachers in school almost every day.
But a group of students at an international school here
may have seen a bit too much of two of their teachers last
week.
While browsing files on the school's computer server,
they chanced upon a video featuring two teachers having sex.
The video has since spread to students in other
schools.
A teenager who is studying in a different school has seen
the video.
James (not his real name), 18, said he learnt about it
during an online chat last Friday with a friend who is in the same
school as the two teachers.
They were talking about the friend's last school day when
the latter blurted out: "Hey, have you heard? People from my school
are talking about this video that's going around.
"It shows teachers having sex. Do you want to see
it?"
Intrigued, James said yes.
His friend sent the file over and James waited half an
hour for the clip to download.
"My friend was laughing when talking about it. He thought
it was quite funny," he recalled.
"It was a 20-minute video, quite a big file. It showed a
man and woman having sex. I was laughing a bit when I saw the
video.
"I was shocked, too, because I was wondering what would
have happened if this had been my school," James said.
The New Paper understands that the video was found on his
friend's school's computer server. It is not known how the video
ended up there.
This explicit footage quickly circulated among the
expatriate student population.
James' 16-year-old sister, who is in another school, also
heard about the incident.
"She brought up the topic during dinner. My parents
laughed but you can imagine it got a bit awkward at the dinner
table," the blonde teenager said.
His friend is overseas and could not be reached, but his
junior in school, Adeline (not her real name), 17, confirmed that
the clip had gone viral.
She said: "A girl came up to some of us on the last day
of school and said her class had found the video. She asked if we
wanted to see it.
"Students were passing it around. I heard someone had
posted it on Facebook and was offering to send it to others through
Skype."
The video, which appears to have been taken by a camera
in a fixed position, shows a naked man and a woman wearing a
camisole, underwear and high-heel shoes having sex in a
bedroom.
Another three students said they had heard about the
video's existence but had not viewed the clip.
Adeline, who did not watch the video, said she knew the
teachers involved.
The man is said to have handled disciplinary matters at
the school, where he has worked for almost a decade.
"We thought of him as Voldemort(the main villain in J.K
Rowling's Harry Potter series). He is very stern and always wearing
black. But once you know him, he's actually quite nice," she
said.
Fellow students said the woman in the video was one of
the stricter teachers there.
TNP understands that the two teachers are dating each
other and could get married soon.
Adeline said that the profiles of both teachers had been
removed from the school's website.
"I hope that they didn't lose their jobs because of
this," she added.
"What some of the students are doing (spreading the
video) is really irritating. There's no respect at all."
A school spokesman said the school was "not in position
to comment on the personal life of ex-staff as these are private
matters".
Its academic year ended on June 8.
TNP understand that the teachers were not fired but had
left after they finished their contracts.
The spokesman said: "While there was no breach in the
school's IT security, the school has briefed its senior leadership,
so they can share the learnings (from) this incident and promote
the responsible use of technology with the senior students in the
upcoming academic year."
When told about the matter, expat parents had varing
reactions.
A housewife who wanted to be known only as Mrs Vivi, 48,
was appalled that the video had become public.
Her family has been in Singapore for six years, and her
son and two daughters attend the school in question.
"What the teachers did was their private matter.
"The video could have been accidentally sent. Mistakes do
happen, I feel very sorry for the teachers involved and for the
school. It's pity (this happened)," she said.
"The students shouldn't be spreading the video. Children
may think it's funny to do so, but I don't think I would find it
funny if (such behaviour) came from my own friends."
She said she and her husband would discuss the matter
with their children.
Another parent, who wanted to be known as Mr G, laughed
as he said: "My children are big girls. I have no problem about
this (if they saw the video)."
The father of three daughters aged 14 to 20 moved to
Singapore last year. His children do not study at the school.
He said: "In today's digital age, it's difficult to keep
things under wraps, but it's what the teachers should have done -
kept it under wraps."
Still, he did not think the incident was a big deal.
"As a parent, I won't complain because there are other
more important things to complain about," he said.
Lawyer Tan Hee Joek said the students who circulated the
video are breaking the law as it is illegal to make, distribute,
show, import, or possess, any obscene video recording.
Under the Firms Act, first-time offenders caught sending
out obscene films will be fined at least $2,000 for each film
distributed or jailed up to two years, or both.
"Technically, the teachers could be in trouble with the
law for making an obscene film but the chances of the police
charging them over this is remote," Mr Tan said.
The teachers could also sue for copyright infringement if
they wish but not for invasion of privacy.
"There is no privacy law here," Mr Tan added.
Sex videos go
viral
Singapore's Edison Chen
Unemployed man Chen Guilin gained notoriety after he posted his
self-filmed sex videos on various amateur porn sites and sex
forums.
The clips had titles like "Gary Ng vs Beer Promo Auntie",
"Gary Ng vs Friend's Niece" and "Gary Ng vs Chua Chu Kang
girl".
Chen used the moniker Gary Ng.
He was found guilty of possessing obscene films and other
offences like housebreaking, forery and criminal breach of trust.
He was jailed for four years and two months and fined $20,000 last
year.
Air Stewardess
A four-minute graphic video showing a Singaporean air
stewardess/part-time actress having sex with a man appeared on US
and regional websites in early 2010.
The clip focused almost entirely on the woman in explicit
poses performing sex acts. She had appeared in several drama series
and did not say much when contacted. The video was taken down soon
after.
Nanyang Poly student
Then 17, she achieved infamy and indecent proposals after a
video of her boyfriend and her having sex was uploaded to the
internetin 2006.
She had lost her moblie phone containing the private
clips. Malaysian DVD pirates even hawked copies of the clips for
RM10 (S$4).
News, The New Paper, Saturday, June 16 2012, Pg 2-3
