An Open Letter to Ng Eng Hen On Mr Kwa Wee Nam Status

[gingerlyn]

Dear Minister,

I write to enquire about Mr Kwa Wee Nam (柯偉南) status.
Is he still employed by Navy of Singapore? The news below does not mention if he resigned volunteerily or if you man has sacked him.

Online vice ring: Ex-navy engineer is the second man to be convicted after a trial

http://www.straitstimes.com/breakin...engineer-the-second-man-be-convicted-after-tr

What do you think?


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A mechanical engineer was jailed for four months on Thursday after he was convicted of commercial sex with an underage escort in the online vice ring case.

Kwa Wee Nam, 34, is the second man after Swiss national Juerg Buergin to have been convicted after trial of having paid sex with the 17-year-old. The former navy engineer was found guilty of paying $450 for the teen's sexual services at Hotel 81 Bencoolen on Oct 8, 2010.

He was among 51 men charged last year in the high-profile case involving the same minor. He is the 24th man to be sentenced so far. Most of the previous offenders who pleaded guilty have been jailed 12 weeks each. Buergin, 42, who was convicted of two charges, has served his four-month and three-week sentence.

Kwa's defence was that he had paid sex with another escort at the hotel, not the minor. The escort, then 35, however, testified that she had never seen Kwa before and that she had no impression of him. Neither did she know the minor nor any of the other escorts working for Tang Boon Thiew, the pimp, who ran the website to market the services of social escorts. The maximum penalty for the offence is seven years' jail and a fine.

 

[BuiKia]

Doesn't that already say he was removed? He is not white-horse sure kenna sacked one.

Online vice ring: Ex-navy engineer is the second man to be convicted after a trial

 

[Untouchables]

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[songsongjurong]

Why Mindef gag order to SPH? Why no rank mentioned? Mislead public this kwa wee nam is civilian ??

 

[TopSage]

He is a nobody sure sack one. Why would anyone stand up to defend him and his job?

Anyway, I find it interesting how Singaporeans are so harrsh and moralistic to demand punishment for these people.

The law for under 17 prostitution is meant to protect the minor from exploitation. In this case the woman was using her body to make money ...she was just shy of 17 and the pimp lied. None of the men punished were looking for underage sex and were victims of deceit themselves.

Yet singaporeans were calling for their blood and enjoy their punishment and downfall.
They have become moralistic and can't see beyond the rules

 

[Rumpole]

Overpaid Minister of Law Shame-mugam should modernise Sinkieland’s laws on statutory rape. One way is to adopt something similar to Section 47 of the UK Sexual Offences Act 2003, sub-section (1) of which reads as follows:

A person (A) commits an offence if—

(a)he intentionally obtains for himself the sexual services of another person (B),

(b)before obtaining those services, he has made or promised payment for those services to B or a third person, or knows that another person has made or promised such a payment, and

(c)either—

(i)B is under 18, and A does not reasonably believe that B is 18 or over, or

(ii)B is under 13.

The words in bold introduce into the offence of statutory rape an element of mens rea (mental culpability for the layman) when the “victim” is over 13 but under 18. As it now stands, the offence of statutory rape in Sinkieland is a strict liability offence – it is a crime regardless of the fact that the “rapist” did the best that can be expected of any reasonable man to ascertain the age of the “victim”.

 

[Rumpole]

Explanatory note:

Section 47 makes it an offence for any person (A) intentionally to obtain for himself the sexual services of a child (B) aged under 18, where those services have been paid for or where payment has been promised. The offence covers the situation where A pays for the services or promises payment either directly to B or to a third party (C) (for example where C is B’s pimp) or where A knows that another person (D) has paid for the services or promised such payment. Where B is 13 or over, the offence will not be committed where A reasonably believes that B is 18 or over. (It will be for the prosecution to prove that A does not reasonably believe that B is 18 or over) However, where B is under 13, A will commit the offence regardless of any reasonable belief he may have about B’s age. Subsection (2) defines payment widely. It covers not only a payment of money but any financial advantage. This includes the discharge of an obligation to pay (for example, B owes A a debt for a car but A agrees to waive the debt if B provides him with sexual services) and the provision of goods or services gratuitously or at a discount (for example, where A provides drugs to B at no or reduced cost on condition that B provides sexual services to A).

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/notes/division/5/1/34

 

[Rumpole]

The explanatory note in post #7 is much better than this one:

[video=youtube;Eikb2lX5xYE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eikb2lX5xYE[/video]