Singapore
Mar 26, 2010
3 fined for baring breasts
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Bernadeth Sonido (far left), Michelle Alejo Bacorro (centre) and Ma Lourdes Dela Cruz (right) were fined $1,000 each. -- ST PHOTOS: WONG KWAI CHOW
TO ENTICE their customers to buy them drinks, three Filipinas bared their breasts in a Duxton pub. On Friday, Bernadeth Sonido, 35; Michelle Alejo Bacorro, 28, and Ma Lourdes Dela Cruz, 26, were fined $1,000 each. A district court heard that on June 5 last year, the three foreigners were working as performing artistes at the Knights Pub & Karaoke along Duxton Road. At about 1am, the trio asked the three men they were sitting with to buy them ladies' drinks so they could earn commissions.
To encourage the men to do so, the Filipinas pulled down their blouses and exposed their breasts and nipples. The customers turned out to be undercover police officers and the women were arrested. Asking the court to impose a light fine, the women's lawyer Gurdaib Singh said that his clients regretted committing the offences. They were also unlikely to be allowed to return to Singapore by the immigration authorities, he added. The three women could have been fined up to $2,000 each and/or jailed for up to three months.
Mar 26, 2010
3 fined for baring breasts
<!-- by line --> By Khushwant Singh
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Bernadeth Sonido (far left), Michelle Alejo Bacorro (centre) and Ma Lourdes Dela Cruz (right) were fined $1,000 each. -- ST PHOTOS: WONG KWAI CHOW
TO ENTICE their customers to buy them drinks, three Filipinas bared their breasts in a Duxton pub. On Friday, Bernadeth Sonido, 35; Michelle Alejo Bacorro, 28, and Ma Lourdes Dela Cruz, 26, were fined $1,000 each. A district court heard that on June 5 last year, the three foreigners were working as performing artistes at the Knights Pub & Karaoke along Duxton Road. At about 1am, the trio asked the three men they were sitting with to buy them ladies' drinks so they could earn commissions.
To encourage the men to do so, the Filipinas pulled down their blouses and exposed their breasts and nipples. The customers turned out to be undercover police officers and the women were arrested. Asking the court to impose a light fine, the women's lawyer Gurdaib Singh said that his clients regretted committing the offences. They were also unlikely to be allowed to return to Singapore by the immigration authorities, he added. The three women could have been fined up to $2,000 each and/or jailed for up to three months.
