SINGAPORE: A 30-year-old man was jailed one month on
Friday for filming his then 13-year-old stepdaughter changing her
clothes.
He pleaded guilty to one count of insulting the
modesty of the girl by intruding upon her
privacy.
The offence took place in May 2010 at their
residential unit at Bukit Batok.
On that afternoon, the girl was changing her clothes in her room
when the man took a video of her with his hand phone.
The court heard that when the girl spotted him outside her room
with the hand phone, he tried to distract her by talking to
her.
She later called the police after she sensed something was
amiss.
His defence lawyer said that the man was remorseful and acted "on
the spur of the moment".
The court also heard that the man, who has a previous string of
offences including possession of offensive weapons and drugs, is no
longer married to the girl's mother.
- CNA/cc