On Wednesday, a 30-year-old man was arrested for allegedly filming women in the ground floor toilet at the NTUC Income Tampines building. Details of the incident circulated on Facebook in a now-deleted post, which had photos of the man believed to be the perpetrator.
The police confirmed they were alerted to the case of criminal trespass and insulting the modesty of a woman at 1am that day.
According to the Facebook post, put up by an unnamed netizen in her late 20s, the man was caught red-handed by her and her two female friends. He claimed to have deleted their videos, but they still demanded for his phone and nabbed him when he tried to flee, Stomp reported.
The woman explained that the suspect’s phone was filled with over 10 clips of girls undressing in the toilet cubicle. His response was to apologize non-stop and, strangely enough, even wish them “merry Christmas”, The Straits Times said.
Describing the incident as “traumatizing”, the victim went on to warn other females to watch out for their surroundings, especially in empty toilets.
The police said in a statement yesterday that investigations are ongoing. If convicted for insulting a woman’s modesty, the man could be jailed for up to a year, fined, or both. If found guilty of criminal trespass, he could be jailed up to three months, fined a maximum of $1,500, or both.
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