By Khushwant Singh, Court Reporter
A NANYANG Polytechnic student pleaded guilty on Thursday to
living on the earnings of three Geylang prostitutes in January this
year. Wong Jiong Yang, 18, also admitted to managing a place of
assignation, which refers to the contact point for customers
seeking the services of the prostitutes.
His sentencing was adjourned till next month for a pre-sentence
report to be prepared so that the court can evaluate his
suitability for probation.
A district court heard that a police officer attached to the
Streetwalker Taskforce arrested three Thai women in a Geylang
lodging house on the morning of Jan 24. The women, aged between 22
and 27, admitted they were prostitutes and that Wong was their
pimp.
The Singaporean was subsequently arrested and investigations
revealed that sometime in December 2010, he was offered a job by
someone called Zen through an Internet chatroom.
Wong took up the offer, and the plan was for him to await
instructions over the phone every evening. He would be told which
alley to got to in the red-light district and solicit for the three
prostitutes. Out of the $50 he collected from every customer, he
kept $5.
At the end of the shift, which was usually in the early hours of
the day, Zen would sent a runner on a motorcycle to collect the
takings. As the boss was using an unlisted number, Wong had no
means to contact him and had never met him. Neither had the
prostitutes.
