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Teen girl admits to making false police report accusing a man of raping her​

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Court Correspondent

Sep 02, 2024

SINGAPORE – A 15-year-old girl knew that a 24-year-old man was on the run from the authorities and had a warrant of arrest issued against him.
Despite this, she harboured the man, identified in court documents as A, in her home for around a month in 2023.
Earlier, on A’s request, she also made a false police report that another man, identified as J, had raped her.
On Sept 2, 2024, the girl, now 16, pleaded guilty to offences including harbouring A and giving false information to a public servant.
She cannot be named, as she is still below 18 and such individuals are protected under the Children and Young Persons Act.
Court documents did not disclose the nature of her relationship with A, whose details have been redacted. His case is still pending.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Benedict Teong said that A was earlier charged with multiple offences including harassment in 2023. He was also accused of assaulting J.

On June 28 that year, he asked the girl to make the false police report, as he wanted to “teach J a lesson”.
A failed to turn up in court the following month and a district judge issued a warrant of arrest against him.
The girl made the false police report on Aug 8, 2023, and A started living at her home later that month.
The prosecutor told the court that due to the report, an unsuspecting police officer conducted an investigation against J for the purported rape.
The girl continued with her lies when she gave a statement to a second police officer on Aug 16, 2023.
Court documents did not disclose what happened next, but officers caught A after they raided the girl’s home on Sept 13 that year.
She finally recanted her false allegations against J on March 6, 2024, before he faced any charges.
On Sept 2, the court called for a report to assess her suitability for a probation.
She will be sentenced on Oct 21

 

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Woman threatened to report husband for raping her and kill him in his sleep​

Jessinta Tan Suat Lin pleaded guilty to three charges – one each for committing a rash act, voluntarily causing hurt and harassment.ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

David Sun
Jan 02, 2025

SINGAPORE – In the heat of an argument over parenting styles, a woman threatened her husband that she would tell the police he had raped her, and told their teenage son she was going to kill his father in his sleep.

Jessinta Tan Suat Lin, 50, also hit a female neighbour with a mop until its aluminium handle broke into three because the latter did not stop skipping rope in a common area after Tan asked her to.

On Jan 2, Tan pleaded guilty to three charges – one each for committing a rash act, voluntarily causing hurt and harassment.

Two other charges – for harassment and another rash act – will be taken into consideration for sentencing.

The housewife is a former journalist who previously worked with news platforms including Today.

On the evening of Feb 16, 2024, Tan was at home at Westmont condominium in West Coast Road when her neighbour began exercising with a skipping rope at the common area near the swimming pool.

Frustrated because her son wanted to rest, Tan approached her neighbour and asked her to stop exercising, but she refused.

Tan then hurled profanities and threw five or six eggs at the woman from a window at around 9.50pm.

About 10 minutes later, Tan attacked the woman with a mop. She bit her neighbour’s arm and hit her on the head with the mop’s aluminium handle until it broke into three pieces.

She also threw a bag of rubbish and an incense bin at the woman but missed.

The victim called the police and went to a hospital, where she was found to have suffered injuries to her head and arms. She later moved out of the condo because of the incident.

Tan was arrested and bailed out by her husband.

About two months later, an argument over their parenting styles escalated into Tan telling their teenage son within earshot of her husband that she would kill his father in his sleep.

At around 8.45pm on April 28, 2024, she used her mobile phone to send her husband a text message using vulgar language and claiming: “I’ll jump bail next month.”

Less than an hour later, at around 9.35pm, she told their son: “I will just kill him one day. He might just die one day in his sleep. One day, when I am really mad, he will die in his sleep. He better lock his door when he sleeps at night.”

Later that night, she threatened her husband, telling him she would tell the police he raped her.

He then made a police report against Tan for the threats.

On Jan 2, Tan’s lawyer, Mr Ramachandran Shiever Subramaniam, said that Tan was a loving mother who had a strained relationship with her husband.

He asked the court for leniency, saying Tan suffers from anxiety and depression, and regrets her actions but makes no excuses for them.

There were no further comments in court regarding the rape allegations.

District Judge Crystal Goh called for a report to determine Tan’s suitability for a mandatory treatment order, which is a type of sentence that mandates psychiatric treatment for offenders with mental health conditions.

The case has been adjourned for sentencing on Feb 11, and Tan is currently out on $10,000 bail.

For voluntarily causing hurt, she can be jailed for up to three years and fined $5,000.

For a rash act, she can be jailed for up to six months and fined up to $2,500.

• David Sun is The Straits Times’ crime correspondent. He has a background in criminology and is a licensed private investigator.