A man who apparently can’t stop flashing his ding dong that nobody asked for has done it once again at bus stops outside of schools in Bukit Batok West.
Budiman Shah Mohd Noorel Azman, 38, yesterday pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exposure and one count of an obscene act for flashing his manhood at an eight-year-old girl, a 16-year-old student and a 29-year-old woman on separate occasions this year. One more charge will be considered in sentencing.
He had been on remission for previous offenses at the time and has been in and out of jail and treatment since 2007.
Budiman, branded as a serial flasher, has been convicted almost yearly for a long list of offenses that mainly involve insulting women’s modesty and others like committing an obscene act and outraging of modesty.
According to court documents, one of his latest victims was an eight-year-old girl who was on the way to school at her bus stop when she saw Budiman standing with his lewd counterparts at a nearby grass patch in January. She boarded the bus and told her father who filed a police report later that day.
Then in May, Budiman alighted from a bus at a bus stop along Bukit Batok West Avenue 3 and walked over to another outside a school where he exposed himself to a lone 29-year-old woman. He smiled at her as he walked past naked.
Lastly (hopefully), he did it again to a 16-year-old student outside a secondary school bus stop in October. She was smart enough to not give in and pretended she didn’t see but Budiman just stood there and waited for her to react.
She later boarded the bus and told her mother about it before reporting him to the police.
In court yesterday, Budiman claimed that he was “eager” for treatment and has a counselor he can confide in to stop his urge to expose himself.
“I feel like there is someone who can help me, when all this while, I feel like I’m facing this sickness alone. All along I’m scared … how to voice out my problems. I’m actually looking forward to whatever treatment will be given to me,” a report by Channel News Asia quoted him saying in court yesterday.
His case has been adjourned to Dec. 27. He has been remanded for observation at the Institute of Mental Health.
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