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Jan 5, 2010
Train molester fined
<!-- by line --> By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
A MAN was fined $4,000 on Tuesday for molesting a woman on board an MRT train last August. Hsu Ming Ta, 42, who works in an IT company, admitted using his left hand inside his trousers pocket to touch the buttocks of the 27-year-old woman inside an MRT train from Raffles Place MRT station towards Tanjong Pagar station on Aug 4 last year. A district court heard that the woman, a finance administrator, was facing the doorway in the train when she felt something touching her buttocks and thought it was accidental. A short while later, she felt another touch followed by one more. She heard someone shouting 'Hoi, what are you doing?'' She immediately turned around and saw Hsu standing very close to her. Two witnesses standing near Hsu and the victim caught him in the act and detained him togehter with the victim. Hsu could have been jailed for up to two years, or fined or caned or received any combination of such punishments.
Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story
Jan 5, 2010
Train molester fined
<!-- by line --> By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
A MAN was fined $4,000 on Tuesday for molesting a woman on board an MRT train last August. Hsu Ming Ta, 42, who works in an IT company, admitted using his left hand inside his trousers pocket to touch the buttocks of the 27-year-old woman inside an MRT train from Raffles Place MRT station towards Tanjong Pagar station on Aug 4 last year. A district court heard that the woman, a finance administrator, was facing the doorway in the train when she felt something touching her buttocks and thought it was accidental. A short while later, she felt another touch followed by one more. She heard someone shouting 'Hoi, what are you doing?'' She immediately turned around and saw Hsu standing very close to her. Two witnesses standing near Hsu and the victim caught him in the act and detained him togehter with the victim. Hsu could have been jailed for up to two years, or fined or caned or received any combination of such punishments.
