SINGAPORE: In what is believed to be a rare court
decision, a 29-year-old engineer has been fined S$4,000 for taking
a video clip up a woman's skirt with his camera
phone.
MediaCorp understands that since 2000, those found
guilty of committing the offence are usually jailed between two and
four weeks.
Chong Kim Hong recorded the video clip at around
7.45pm inside Kinokuniya bookstore at Bugis Junction on 4 May
2008.
The 31-year-old woman spotted him doing so and
alerted her boyfriend.
Police were notified and Chong was arrested.
In mitigation, Chong's lawyer, Josephus Tan, told the court that
his client was remorseful and that the entire judicial process had
taught him "a very bitter lesson".
Chong was also a first-time offender.
For committing the offence, he could have been jailed up to one
year, fined or both.
-CNA/ac
