SINGAPORE: A former teacher was jailed on Friday for
18 months for assaulting and molesting his girlfriend's sister on
May 24 last year.
He is not named to protect the victim's
identity.
The 29-year-old man used to stay at his girlfriend's
family flat where he shared a room with the woman and her younger
sibling.
However, the younger girl who did not like having him in her home
hardly spoke to each other.
According to Deputy Public Prosecutor Eunice Chong, the man and the
girl who was then 19-years-old, were at home.
The man who had been drinking some beer tried to speak to the girl
who was asleep in her bedroom.
She ignored him when he tried to wake her up.
Enraged, the man pummelled the girl repeatedly with his fists and
kicked her on the upper thigh until she fell unconscious onto the
floor.
He then undressed her, touching her thighs and legs while he
stripped off her underwear and shorts.
DPP Chong said he then used his mobile phone to film the
unconscious girl's body.
Calling it a "vicious" and an "unprovoked" attack, the prosecution
said the girl was bleeding from both ears and had multiple bleeding
spots in her eyes after the assault.
The young girl also suffered numerous bruises, abrasions as well as
scratch marks all over her body and had to be warded for eight days
at the National University Hospital.
DDP Chong said the girl's father came home shortly after the attack
only to find his daughter lying battered on the floor.
The father informed the authorities and officers arrived to arrest
her attacker.
Defence counsel Stuart Palmer told Community Court Judge Ng Peng
Hong that his client was suffering from major depressive disorder
that could have affected his self control.
The lawyer also highlighted that his client had stayed at his
girlfriend's flat for more than two years without incident.
The man had moved out of his family's flat after finding out he was
an adopted child, said Mr Palmer.
The prosecution, however, stressed that the 19-year-old was
attacked in the sanctity of her own home.
"The sexual slant to the assault" made the man's actions "all the
more reprehensible", said DPP Chong.
-CNA/wk/sf