AN INDIAN national who molested five girls and young women in
the Woodlands vicinity was jailed for eight years and ordered 12
strokes of the cane.
Construction worker Thangavelu Tamilselvam, who targeted his
victims by cycling around the estate, molested them in lifts
between May 13 and 31, 2010.
He pleaded guilty to three counts and had two others considered
during his sentencing.
His modus operand was to follow the victims into the lift and
outrage their modesty before fleeing on his bicycle.
In two of the proceeded charges, he wrongfully restrained a
10-year-old and a 15-year-old girl when molesting them.
The punishment for each offence is a jail term of up to 10 years
and caning.
The court heard that he was staying at Woodlands E1 Industrial
Park when he cycled around the nearby HDB blocks to pick his
victims from afar.
The punishment for outrage of modesty is a jail term of up to
two years or fine or caning or any combined sentence.
-- ST
Should implement a sex offender list whereby the sex offender
cannot be living or in close proximity of 400 m radius near a
school, child care centre or the home of his former victims.
Also depending on severity of sex offenders, a serial sex rapist
should be neutered like a dog.
