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Facts
2 On the day in question, the Accused was at the Club with his friends, and had consumed alcohol. At about 3:30 am, he was going to the toilet when he saw the first victim just coming out of the ladies’ toilet. He grabbed her shoulders and asked for her name. She struggled and refused to give him her name. He then let go of her shoulders but grabbed both her breasts at the same time with his hands. This act was the subject of the charge which was taken into consideration for the purpose of sentencing.
3 The first victim ran back to the interior of the Club and told two of her friends about this. One of them was male while the other was the second victim. The three of them decided to look for the Accused. At about 3:40 am, they confronted him in the male toilet. He initially denied molesting the first victim. However, after much questioning, he said, “I did it, so what.” He then slipped his right hand into the second victim’s top, underneath the bra cup of her right breast, and squeezed her breast three times. This act formed the charge to which the Accused pleaded guilty.
4 The male friend and the second victim then pushed the Accused out of the toilet. When they were outside, the Club’s bouncers approached, and the Accused said, “So what, I am a foreigner.” He was detained until the police arrived.
25 Having considered the Accused’s youth, his guilty plea and the victims’ acceptance of the compensation, I am of the view that a lengthy imprisonment term is not necessary. A short stint in prison would be sufficient for him to experience the rigours of prison life and to impress upon him the wrongfulness of his conduct, so that he will be deterred from committing such acts again. In arriving at this decision, I was mindful that while it is by no means certain that a young Singaporean offender would be granted probation for such an offence, the option to seek probation would at least be open to him, an option which I found not to be available to the Accused in this case. As for caning, while I would ordinarily have imposed caning on an adult for an offence of this nature, I find that this is an appropriate case to depart from that benchmark, due primarily to the Accused’s youth.
Facts
2 On the day in question, the Accused was at the Club with his friends, and had consumed alcohol. At about 3:30 am, he was going to the toilet when he saw the first victim just coming out of the ladies’ toilet. He grabbed her shoulders and asked for her name. She struggled and refused to give him her name. He then let go of her shoulders but grabbed both her breasts at the same time with his hands. This act was the subject of the charge which was taken into consideration for the purpose of sentencing.
3 The first victim ran back to the interior of the Club and told two of her friends about this. One of them was male while the other was the second victim. The three of them decided to look for the Accused. At about 3:40 am, they confronted him in the male toilet. He initially denied molesting the first victim. However, after much questioning, he said, “I did it, so what.” He then slipped his right hand into the second victim’s top, underneath the bra cup of her right breast, and squeezed her breast three times. This act formed the charge to which the Accused pleaded guilty.
4 The male friend and the second victim then pushed the Accused out of the toilet. When they were outside, the Club’s bouncers approached, and the Accused said, “So what, I am a foreigner.” He was detained until the police arrived.
25 Having considered the Accused’s youth, his guilty plea and the victims’ acceptance of the compensation, I am of the view that a lengthy imprisonment term is not necessary. A short stint in prison would be sufficient for him to experience the rigours of prison life and to impress upon him the wrongfulness of his conduct, so that he will be deterred from committing such acts again. In arriving at this decision, I was mindful that while it is by no means certain that a young Singaporean offender would be granted probation for such an offence, the option to seek probation would at least be open to him, an option which I found not to be available to the Accused in this case. As for caning, while I would ordinarily have imposed caning on an adult for an offence of this nature, I find that this is an appropriate case to depart from that benchmark, due primarily to the Accused’s youth.
