On Monday (8 Mar), an officer from a government agency pleaded guilty to one count of molestation and has been fined $3,000 for molesting his colleague.
He cannot be named due to a gag order.
46Y/O Govt Agency Officer Fined S$3,000 for Molesting Female Colleague
On 28 June 2020 at around 6PM, the 46-year-old man told the victim, who is in her 20s, to follow him into the break room at their workplace, saying that he had something important to tell her.
When they were alone in the break room, he then asked her why she made him think of her every night, causing him difficulty in sleeping. She was confused by this and asked him what she had done.
He then wrapped his arms around her waist and hugged her. She hugged him back in response, under the impression that he was giving her a friendly hug.
However, things spiralled out of control from there.
The man asked her to kiss him, to which she instantly refused. He continued holding onto her waist with one arm before using his other hand to hold her face and asking her to give him a kiss for the second time.
Once again, she refused. In response, he tapped and squeezed her buttocks, then finally let her go.
The victim, who had been traumatised by his advances, filed a police report around a month later.
Court Issued a Fine for a “Fleeting” Act
Deputy Public Prosecutor Bjorn Tan asked that the court issue a fine to the perpetrator as the act had been “fleeting”.
District Judge Eddy Tham had pointed out that there was a “kind of consent” when the victim had hugged the man back under the mistaken assumption that it was a platonic hug, but that she had certainly not given him consent to proceed with further intimate acts.
For molestation, the man could have been imprisoned for up to two years and caned in addition to the fine imposed.
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