Mark Chow admits molest
FORMER TV actor and model agency owner Mark Chow Yee Sze
molested a young aspiring model who had expressed interest in
joining his agency four years ago.
Chow, now 30, had contacted the 24-year-old woman for an
interview and to meet at a bar at Gallery Hotel at Nanson Road on
Aug 16, 2006.
A district court heard that he told her that he intended to put
her in FHM and Maxim, two men's magazines. As such, he wanted to
examine her body as a standard protocol. The woman reluctantly
agreed after Chow indicated that he did this for all his models to
find out if they qualified to pose for the magazines.
While they were inside the unisex toilet, she stripped to her
underwear. She refused when he asked her to take off her
undergarments. He then extended his left hand into her bra and
caressed her breast. Shocked, the woman pushed him away. He then
left the toilet.
On Wednesday, Chow pleaded guilty to the molestation as well as
two criminal intimidation charges. While on bail for his current
offences, he went to the Institute of Mental Health last Nov 26 and
threatened the staff there by pointing two pistol-like objects at
them.
He also threatened a Certis Cisco officer in a similar way.
District Judge Sarjit Singh adjourned sentencing to April 30 to
consider the submissions made by Deputy Public Prosecutor Adrian
Loo.
Chow, who had four other charges taken into consideration, was
recently fined $6,000 for molesting a former pub operations manager
in January 2007 after a trial.
-- ST
