By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
POSING as a woman running a social escort business, he trawled
the Internet for young women, enticing them with money in return
for sexual services for 'clients'.
Lim Jun Chieh's offer, of as much as $20,000 for the works,
including two rounds of sex, proved too tempting for at least eight
women who fell for his scam. In all, the 30-year-old cheated two
women and bedded six others, including a 16-year-old girl who was
promised payment of $5,000.
Most of them ended up having intercourse with him without
realising that he was behind the advertisements for social escorts
on the Internet.
Yesterday, Lim was jailed a total of 30 months by District Judge
Ng Peng Hong after pleading guilty to two counts of cheating, and
one charge each of procuring a woman to prostitute herself and
having commercial sex with a minor under 18.
He committed the offences over a three-year period, starting
from July 2007, less than a year after his release from prison for
similar offences.
His modus operandi involved an elaborate act in which he posed
as multiple women - Ling, Pink, Lingling and Madeline - to win the
trust of his victims. He used the social networking Internet site
Friendster as the base of his operations.
