Guy Advertise Prostitution On Twitter and Telegram Get Jail and fined $26,000
Source MysgDaily
The 39-year-old defendant Liong Tianwei (transliteration) faces 14 charges, including transmitting obscene videos and more, in which he admitted six of them, and the rest were considered by the judge when he sent to the sentence. The day before yesterday (March 9) he was sentenced to nine weeks in jail and fined S$26,000. He has no money to pay the fine and will be jailed for another six weeks instead.
According to the case, the defendant called the same Chinese prostitute several times in 2016. The defendant later met a man nicknamed “Brother Hua” through a prostitute, and agreed to the latter’s request to help advertise and solicit business for the prostitutes. He was able to collect S$300 to S$800 per week from each prostitute, and he earned money from this with a payment of at least $11,000 monthly.
The defendant first downloaded explicit photos and videos from prostitution sites, and then uploaded them to various social media for advertising, including Twitter and the Telegram social group “SG Nasi Lemak”. The group was established in November 2018 and had as many as 44,000 members at the time, and the defendant was one of the administrators.
The group was later kicked him out for distributing pornographic videos and photos of local women. The police also received 31 related reports within seven months. Afterwards, the police arrested the defendant and three other men involved, and found six electronic devices from the defendant’s home, and found 8139 indecent photos and 3083 indecent videos in them.
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The defendant refused to cooperate at first, and later obediently handed over the password of his social media account for police investigation. In addition to the defendant, two 18-year-old and 20-year-old men were previously sentenced to probation for one year, and the case of the other will be heard separately. The defendant’s wife was worried that the two sons would feel “ashamed” after recognizing their father in the newspaper. Through a lawyer, she applied to the judge not to let the defendant’s photo appear in the newspaper, but the judge refused.
The lawyer said yesterday that although the defendant’s photo had been published in the newspaper earlier, his wife was worried that the two sons would recognize his father in the newspaper and would feel “ashamed” about it, so he applied for an injunction in court ( gag order), the judge is kindly requested to approve the denial of the defendant’s photos from being published on the grounds of protecting the defendant’s children.
The prosecution retorted that the ban is mainly used to protect the victim, so there is no legal authority to prevent the media from publishing pictures of the defendant. The judge finally combined public and personal considerations and rejected the lawyer’s request, and pointed out that this humiliation and humiliation were the result of the defendant’s improper behaviour.