Pub offered sexual services using privacy cubicles and smoke machine; four jailed

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Pub offered sexual services using privacy cubicles and smoke machine; four jailed

Published on Jun 25, 2014 3:06 PM
By Ian Poh

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SINGAPORE - To boost its poor earnings, a pub along Circular Road set up a "VIP" area for customers in the back. Five waist-high cubicles were hooked up to a smoke machine that could be turned on by hostesses for further privacy - as they performed oral sex on customers for $220 per session.

Besides the set-up in the back of the premises of Kenneth Hideout, Filipino hostesses sourced through an agent would also provide sex for $300 in two-hour sessions conducted elsewhere. The women were paid salaries and commissions based on drinks and sexual services, but were only given this after paying off debts owed to the pub.

On Wednesday, four people were jailed for between one and seven months after pleading guilty to various offences under the Women's Charter. These were committed between June 2010 and June 2012.

The four were pub owner Clement Chan Lye Hua, 56, managers Alan Sin Chee Chew, 50, and Tan Peng Soon, 58, and cashier Nurfahana Jailan, 24.

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Four jailed for roles in promoting prostitution at pub

Ian Poh
The Straits Times
Saturday, Jun 28, 2014

SINGAPORE - To help boost its business, a pub on Circular Road set up a "VIP" area in the rear of its premises.

It had five waist-high cubicles and a button-operated smoke machine that hostesses would activate for extra privacy when performing oral sex on customers at $220 per session, drinks included.

Also, Filipinas hired on work permits by the Kenneth Hideout pub as entertainers would provide sex. Such $300 two-hour sessions were carried out elsewhere.

The women were paid basic salaries and commission based on the drinks and sexual services sold. But they would have to settle debts owed to the pub before being entitled to their earnings. The debts included expenses incurred in bringing them to Singapore from the Philippines.

Kenneth Hideout was eventually shut down following a raid.

Yesterday, four people were handed jail terms ranging from one to seven months for various offences under the Women's Charter that they committed between June 2010 and June 2012.

The four are former pub owner Chan Lye Hua, 56; managers Alan Sin Chee Chew, 50, and Tan Peng Soon, 58; and cashier Nurfarhana Jailan, 24. In sentencing them, a community court considered the respective roles each had played. It noted these were all important for what had been an "extensive" operation.

Pleading for leniency, their lawyer Gurdaib Singh said they were remorseful and had no previous similar convictions.

The pub was set up in 2008 by Chan. He introduced the hostesses two months after the pub's opening to boost its poor earnings.

In June 2010, he asked Sin, a friend who had helped with the business from the start, to help manage the pub. The duo, who were given seven and five months' jail respectively, took turns to arrange for the Filipinas to come here. Chan would brief them on what they must do at work.

Tan was employed in April 2012. Besides preparing a daily sales report, his involvement included suggesting setting up the VIP area to give added privacy to customers wanting oral sex. Tan was jailed for two months.

Nurfarhana joined as a barmaid in 2010. In April 2012, she became the cashier and would key in the transactions. She was jailed for a month.

The court heard that Chan would take half of the hostesses' earnings from prostitution, from which he would pay the trio.

The maximum penalty for living on a prostitute's earnings is a five-year jail term and $10,000 in fines.

For managing or helping to manage a brothel, each of the four could have been jailed up to three years and fined up to $3,000.

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