Man gets 24 months' probation, mobile phone ban for
taking upskirt photos
SINGAPORE : A 25-year-year old man has been sentenced to
24 months' probation for capturing images up the skirts of five
women.
He is also banned from using mobile phones that can be
used to take pictures.
Gary Huang Kun Jie had pleaded guilty to the charges in
April.
He had used his mobile phone camera to take photographs of
the five women's underwear between January 9 and 14 last
year.
Shortly before his arrest, Huang had entered a lift with
one of the victims at Block 875, Yishun Avenue 1 at around 8.30pm
on January 14.
He then secretly took a photograph of her underwear as the
lift was going up.
She turned around and saw him holding his mobile phone under her
skirt.
The woman demanded that Huang handed over his phone and he soon
admitted that he had snapped the photograph without her
consent.
The woman immediately told her husband about the incident.
Her spouse lodged a police report at around 9.20pm and the
authorities arrived soon afterwards.
They seized Huang's mobile phone and found more than 90 video clips
of unknown women in it.
All of them were taken inside lifts at different locations.
A district court on Monday heard that based on medical reports,
Huang is suffering from a mental condition known as
paraphilia.
It is a disorder where a patient obtains sexual gratification from
unusual practices.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Agnes Chan told District Judge Soh Tze
Bian that during his probation, Huang has to follow up with
psychiatric and psychological treatment.
Huang's parents must also supervise his access to image-capturing
devices such as cameras and video recorders.
In addition, they have to supervise his Internet usage to better
manage his access to pornography.
His probation review will be conducted in six months' time.
For each charge, Huang could have been sentenced to a maximum of a
year's jail and fined.
- CNA /ls