A CORPORATE trainer and events organiser was ordered to pay a fine of $4,000 yesterday for molesting a woman.
Wee Chor Kian, 55, was convicted after a trial of caressing the buttocks of a 37-year-old business development manager at the auditorium of the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM).
The victim, who worked in a company which had jointly organised the talk, was having a group photo taken at the Clementi campus auditorium on June 25 last year when she was molested.
Shocked and disturbed, she related the incident to a staff member of SIM, who testified as one of the prosecution witnesses.
Another independent witness told the court that he was standing close by, to the left and rear of Wee during the photo-taking session, when he not only saw Wee touching the victim’s buttocks, but also how angrily the woman reacted.
Wee’s defence was that he was framed or, alternatively, that he might have brushed against her body accidentally.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Isaac Tan urged District Judge Lee Poh Choo to consider that Wee had not only committed the audacious act but also shown no remorse when the victim was on the stand.
“Aspersions were cast on her character and suggestions that she was inclined towards risque behaviour,” he said. Wee could have been jailed for up to two years for the offence.
