![]() To commit the offences, he would set his mobile phone to video-recording mode before inviting a female colleague to his workstation for data entry purposes. In an earlier statement, the Ministry of Education told The Straits Times that the man has been suspended from service since July 2018, and is no longer teaching in any school.īetween April 18, 2015, and July 11, 2018, the man filmed multiple upskirt videos of numerous women, targeting at least 38 of his colleagues. The teacher’s offences came to light when a female teacher, who was one of the victims, suspected that he had been taking upskirt videos and alerted the police on July 14, 2018. The teacher was then offered bail of S$15,000.įor each count of insulting a woman’s modesty, an offender can be jailed for up to a year and fined. On Tuesday, defence lawyer Laurence Goh told the court that his client intends to appeal against the sentence. ![]() However, Dr Phang also found that the teacher still retained his ability to make the choice to not commit the offences.ĭue to this finding, Judge Tan said that his mental condition bore little or no mitigating weight and sentenced him to a jail term. ![]() Offenders given such an order have to undergo treatment to address their conditions in lieu of time behind bars. The teacher was found to be suitable to undergo a mandatory treatment order. Five other charges were considered during sentencing.īefore handing down the sentence on Tuesday, District Judge Brenda Tan noted that according to reports from Dr Stephen Phang from the Institute of Mental Health, the teacher was suffering from major depressive disorder at the time of the offences. In September 2022, he pleaded guilty to three counts of insulting a woman’s modesty. The names of the former discipline master, a 50-year-old father of three, and the school cannot be disclosed due to a gag order to protect the victims’ identities. The offences were committed from 2015 to 2018. SINGAPORE: A teacher who took 170 upskirt videos of at least 47 different victims, including his then colleagues and students, was sentenced to 10 months and two weeks’ jail on Tuesday.
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