A POLYTECHNIC student was sentenced to six months' jail and
fined $600 on Monday for outrage of modesty and other offences. Jee
Guang You, 24, was studying at Nanyang Polytechnic when he molested
four victims at the library of the Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8 premises
last November.
He admitted to five of nine charges - two each of outrage of
modesty and insulting modesty, and one of theft of
undergarments.
A Community Court heard that Jee was found to be suffering from
paraphilia and fetishism by an Institute of Mental Health
doctor.
His lawyer Steven Lam said his client's family would make sure
that he received proper treatment and monitor him closely. He said
Jee, a former N-level and ITE student, got into the polytechnic
through sheer hard work.
The court backdated Jee's sentence to Dec 3 last year, which
means he was released from prison on Monday.
He could have been jailed for up to two years, fined, caned or
received any of the combination. The maximum for insulting modesty
is one year and a fine; and for theft, three years and a fine.
-- ST