Whether it’s in person, over the phone, or on the interweb, creeps will always find a way to harass and gross out those they desire.
You have people going around stealing underwear, exposing themselves, recording upskirt videos, and sharing compromising photos of their victims without their consent.
This creep, however, took a slightly more complex but equally disgusting route.
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Man Allegedly Posed as a Doctor on FB to Get Women to Send Him Pics of Their Private Parts
It all started with a Facebook profile centered around women’s health. The man who created the profile, a “gynaecologist”, said he wanted to raise awareness of women’s health, and invited women to join his campaign.
A gynaecologist is a doctor who deals with the health of the female reproductive system.
Based on this simple objective, we’d assume that he would share important information regarding women’s health on his page, or answer health queries his followers may have, right?
Instead, he asked women to send him photos of their genitals under the pretext of research and medical diagnosis.
This guy was no gynaecologist, of course. Just a creep.
Someone suspected that this was the case and lodged a police report over the matter on 24 July. The report claimed that the man had pretended to be a gynaecologist from a certain hospital which has not been publicly revealed.
Investigators eventually managed to identify the suspect as a 36-year-old man. He was arrested four months later on 11 Nov, with officers seizing all his electronic devices as case exhibits.
Charged For Cheating by Personation
Investigators believe that the man is involved in other similar cheating cases as well. Even though his crime was certainly of a sexual nature, the 36-year-old is expected to be charged for cheating by personation today (13 Nov).
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Singapore’s penal code states that a person is said to “cheat by personation”, if they “cheat by pretending to be some other person, or by knowingly substituting one person for another, or representing that they or any other person is a person other than he or such other person really is.”
In other words, cheating others by pretending to be someone they’re not.
This is an offence whether the individual personated is a real or an imaginary person. Those convicted of this offence face a fine, up to five years’ imprisonment, or both.
“The police would like to warn members of the public that it is a serious offence to impersonate another individual and will not hesitate to take action against those who blatantly disregard the law,” the police said.
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