‘A monster’: Man in Singapore gets 25-year jail term for forcing wife into prostitution, and sexually abusing daughter and niece
- The 27-year-old unemployed man made his wife advertise her sexual services online “to ensure that she fulfilled a daily quota of customers”
- He was also sentenced to 24 strokes of the cane and fined US$8,840
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A Singaporean man described as a “monster” by prosecutors was sentenced to 25-and-a-half years in jail on Tuesday for forcing his wife into prostitution and sexually abusing their young daughter and a niece.
The sentence was lengthier than the 22 years sought by state prosecutors because of the gravity of the offences, including punching his wife to coerce her into prostitution so they could provide for their infant son.
A High Court judge also sentenced the unemployed man, who cannot be named due to a court-issued gag order, to 24 strokes of the cane and a fine of S$12,000 (US$8,840).
The sordid sexual depravity of his transgressions is unprecedented and involves him sexually exploiting the three most vulnerable women in his life.
“The 27-year-old accused is a monster,” Deputy Public Prosecutor Eunice Lau said in court.
“The sordid sexual depravity of his transgressions is unprecedented and involves him sexually exploiting the three most vulnerable women in his life – whom he had every responsibility to protect,” Lau said.
The court also heard that the man sexually abused his six-year-old daughter and molested his wife’s 13-year-old niece.
The man forced his wife to advertise her sexual services online using physical and emotional violence “to ensure that she fulfilled a daily quota of customers”, Lau said.
He also coerced her into secretly filming herself having sex with customers because of a “deviant fetish” to see them.
Over a period of three months in 2016, the man’s wife provided sexual services to more than a hundred male clients, earning close to S$11,000 which she gave to him.
The man had married his wife in 2012, the court heard, but started physically abusing his wife even before that, with the assaults becoming more frequent from 2015, local media reported.
