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SINGAPORE — A former police officer with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) rented a condominium unit in Geylang in January 2017 for S$1,700 a month, intending for his partner to live there.
But she disappeared.
Wanting to rent the unit out, the man, then aged 50, advertised it for S$80 a day on a chat group on messaging application WeChat. The group’s participants were mainly sex workers.
One worker, then aged 31, contacted him on June 19, 2017 and they met the next day.
She told him she had to use the unit as she had been arrested for vice activities earlier that year, and had been issued a special pass by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority to assist with investigations. She needed to earn money to support herself and for her family in China.
The man sought her sexual services and duped her into believing he was a police officer when he was really a security guard. He did not tell her he has HIV-positive and she agreed because she did not wish to get into more trouble with the law.
On Wednesday (Feb 13), the man pleaded guilty to four charges — two under the Infectious Diseases Act, and two under the Women’s Charter for using the apartment as a brothel and living off the earnings of a prostitute.
Seven other similar charges will be taken into consideration for sentencing when he returns to court on April 5.
The man and his victims cannot be named due to a court order.
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But she disappeared.
Wanting to rent the unit out, the man, then aged 50, advertised it for S$80 a day on a chat group on messaging application WeChat. The group’s participants were mainly sex workers.
One worker, then aged 31, contacted him on June 19, 2017 and they met the next day.
She told him she had to use the unit as she had been arrested for vice activities earlier that year, and had been issued a special pass by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority to assist with investigations. She needed to earn money to support herself and for her family in China.
The man sought her sexual services and duped her into believing he was a police officer when he was really a security guard. He did not tell her he has HIV-positive and she agreed because she did not wish to get into more trouble with the law.
On Wednesday (Feb 13), the man pleaded guilty to four charges — two under the Infectious Diseases Act, and two under the Women’s Charter for using the apartment as a brothel and living off the earnings of a prostitute.
Seven other similar charges will be taken into consideration for sentencing when he returns to court on April 5.
The man and his victims cannot be named due to a court order.
More at Ex-police officer convicted of having sex with prostitutes without informing them of HIV status
