SINGAPORE — A man who owned a now-defunct bubble tea store went on trial on Tuesday (Oct 13) for allegedly molesting two teenage female employees in 2017 by touching their buttocks.
Tan Kah Heng, 55, is contesting three charges related to one alleged victim and another six charges of molesting the other teenager.
They were secondary school classmates, aged 16 and 17 respectively at the time.
Both of them and the store, located at an MRT station, cannot be named due to gag orders to protect the identities of the alleged victims.
Court documents stated that Tan allegedly touched the first employee’s buttocks first, before smacking her there and hugging her from the back on Nov 12, 2017.
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As for the other woman, Tan purportedly brushed against her buttocks six times on unspecified dates that same month.
On Tuesday, after the first employee testified as to her version of events, Tan’s lawyer accused her of colluding with her friend to get Tan into trouble.
She had told the court that he failed to pay her salary for that month, then “kept prolonging and delaying” doing so till she got her father to meet him.
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Tan Kah Heng, 55, is contesting three charges related to one alleged victim and another six charges of molesting the other teenager.
They were secondary school classmates, aged 16 and 17 respectively at the time.
Both of them and the store, located at an MRT station, cannot be named due to gag orders to protect the identities of the alleged victims.
Court documents stated that Tan allegedly touched the first employee’s buttocks first, before smacking her there and hugging her from the back on Nov 12, 2017.
Read also: Man jailed for molesting 2 teenage boys on buses, said he could not remember how often he had done it before
As for the other woman, Tan purportedly brushed against her buttocks six times on unspecified dates that same month.
On Tuesday, after the first employee testified as to her version of events, Tan’s lawyer accused her of colluding with her friend to get Tan into trouble.
She had told the court that he failed to pay her salary for that month, then “kept prolonging and delaying” doing so till she got her father to meet him.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...y-molesting-2-teenage-employees-lawyer-claims
