Company Suspended Financial Consultant Who Is Allegedly The NUS Voyeur; Voyeur then Resigned Instead

2019-04-23 , 12:00 pm

NUS has been in the spotlight recently, and not for a good reason.

Last Thursday, a student, Monica Baey, studying at NUS had expressed her frustration on Instagram after her perpetrator had only received a light punishment.

What did he do?

Here’s a recap lest you’ve not been online for the last few days.

The perpetrator had filmed her in the shower.

She noticed an iPhone being held underneath her shower door on 25 November last year, and ran away after she shouted.

She notified campus security and the Junior Common Room Committee of Eusoff Hall, the student body representative of the residence.

Turns out, she knew both the perpetrator and his girlfriend. She also claims that his girlfriend had tried to talk her into dropping the case.

Telling a girl who just had her privacy invaded to drop the case when you’re a girl yourself? No words.

The case has since taken the internet by storm, and netizens were just as unhappy with the outcome of the case.

Real Consequences, Please

“I want real consequences for perpetrators that commit such acts and I want to know that NUS will reprimand them seriously so other potential perpetrators know they will face punishment if they commit (such acts),” Monica wrote in an Instagram story on Friday.

His current punishment is a semester suspension from school and a 12-month conditional warning by the authorities. He also wrote an apology letter to Monica, which she posted on her Instagram story.

His full name and details were also revealed by Monica on her Instagram story, which was spread all over social media.

Singaporeans being the great CSI investigators they are quickly found more information about him, though they were careful not to cross the line due to the new doxxing law.

Nevertheless, photos of him were soon uploaded and spread around.

They somehow managed to find out that he was working as a financial representative, i.e. insurance agent, in Great Eastern.

That’s when shit hits the fan.

Employer Takes Action

Image: Screengrab from Facebook/Great Easter Singapore

In a Facebook post made by Great Eastern, they stated that they were well aware of the incident. He was also placed on immediate suspension and has since submitted his resignation.

To end off their post, they added that their company “strongly disapproves of any inappropriate conduct by our financial representatives and will not hesitate to take the necessary action.”

Oh, wells.

Heavier Punishment

Other undergraduates and the public have also shown their support for Monica.

There’s a petition ongoing to give him a heavier punishment, and it has nearly 33,000 signatures.

While it first started as a petition to give him a heavier punishment, it has since grown to demand for a change the archaic system of the law put in place decades ago by the NUS administration.

There was also an official appeal which was submitted by a group of NUS alumni and students, including Monica. The administrators of the petition decided that it was enough to push for a change, hence the petition will remain to show that people do want to see a change in the situation.

Warning is Unusual

According to an article published by The Straits Times, it was reported that lawyers say that the warning appears unusual.

The founder of Invictus Law Corporation, Josephus Tan (yes, that long hair lawyer), said “A first-time offender for Section 509 Penal Code offence should generally be looking at a sentence of two to four weeks in jail per charge. This NUS case seems unusual as he was let off with a conditional stern warning without going through the judicial process at the first instance.”

Eugene Thuraisingam, a lawyer, also said “They do not have to provide an explanation for their decision. Unlike other jurisdictions, they do not publish guidelines as to how they exercise their discretion. Their decision can only be challenged in Court if it is exercised with malice or in bad faith.”

To address this issue, NUS is organising a closed-door town hall for NUS students and staff.

Victim Glad that Change is Coming

In an interview with TODAYonline, Monica is “glad” that there has been an overwhelming support for her and a change.

She’s now in Taiwan for an exchange program, and acknowledged that there have been many other cases so “and this is really signalling a larger issue at hand.”

Winston Churchill once said, “Never waste a good crisis.”

Guess this is a prime example for the quote, no?