Another Voyeur Caught, This Time in NTU Male Toilet; Police Investigating

Yes, folks, you didn’t read that wrong.

Mere days after the whole ‘Monica Baey’ episode first blew out of proportions, there’s yet another voyeur case in town, though this time around there are two key differences:

• This latest incident took place in Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
• It’s not the female toilet this time.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it seems that sexual equality is truly in place here as this time around…

It’s the male toilet that’s in jeopardy.

What happened?

According to Channel NewsAsia, a 19-year-old man’s currently being investigated for criminal trespass, following a peeping Tom incident that was reported at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) last Sunday.

The Police has since confirmed the incident, stating that a call for assistance had been made through the 999 hotline at around 1:00 p.m. on 21 April 2019 after a man allegedly snapped photos (not videos, it seem) of another man in the male shower at a residential hall.

Yes, it’s yet another showering incident, but it’s photos instead of videos.

Apparently, several students had assisted to detain the man, who’s reportedly neither a student nor an employee of the university (that explains the criminal trespass investigation).

Nice.

Monica Baey

The peeping tom incident comes in the wake of another prominent case, in which an NUS female undergraduate was filmed without her knowledge while having a shower at her hostel.

The perpetrator was eventually caught, and sentenced to a 12-month-conditional warning as well as suspension from school and mandatory counselling.

The victim felt that the sentence was too light, and as such advocated for tougher action on her social media platform (IG Stories that were picked up by media).

This would turn out to be the trigger for an islandwide man-hunt of sorts, with petitions arising from everywhere, explicitly campaigning for harsher measures against the perpetrator and other offenders of similar cases.

Throughout the process, the perpetrator’s identity was leaked, as was his girlfriend’s, and family.

Reviewing their approaches

Since then, NUS, NTU and Singapore Management University (SMU) have stepped out to announce the review of their approaches to such cases.

NTU, for one, will be reviewing its disciplinary framework, and will also commence a new online module on anti-harassment in July for all freshmen and student organisers of transition and orientation programmes.

“Creating a safe campus environment is a top priority at NTU. NTU believes in building a culture of mutual support where students are encouraged to watch out for one another,” the university said in a statement on the police investigation.

It then added that CCTVs currently cover most of the common areas in its halls of residence, and that campus security routinely patrol the halls and are stationed at every hall between 9:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m.

Voyeurism on the rise?

I would say that voyeurism is definitely garnering an unwanted increase in popularity.

Though judging by how the schools are stepping up their game…

We can at least have a safer peace of mind, in the sense that perpetrators will no longer find the temptations so easy, or lenient, to succumb to.

And I can shower in peace.