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Former TCS actor Mark Chow molested aspiring model
21 Apr 2010
SOURCE: The Straits Times
FORMER TV actor and model agency owner Mark Chow Yee Sze molested a young aspiring model who had expressed interest in joining his agency four years ago.
Chow, now 30, had contacted the 24-year-old woman for an interview and to meet at a bar at Gallery Hotel at Nanson Road on Aug 16, 2006.
A district court heard that he told her that he intended to put her in FHM and Maxim, two men's magazines. As such, he wanted to examine her body as a standard protocol. The woman reluctantly agreed after Chow indicated that he did this for all his models to find out if they qualified to pose for the magazines.
While they were inside the unisex toilet, she stripped to her underwear. She refused when he asked her to take off her undergarments. He then extended his left hand into her bra and caressed her breast. Shocked, the woman pushed him away. He then left the toilet.
On Wednesday, Chow pleaded guilty to the molestation as well as two criminal intimidation charges. While on bail for his current offences, he went to the Institute of Mental Health last Nov 26 and threatened the staff there by pointing two pistol-like objects at them.
He also threatened a Certis Cisco officer in a similar way. District Judge Sarjit Singh adjourned sentencing to April 30 to consider the submissions made by Deputy Public Prosecutor Adrian Loo.
Chow, who had four other charges taken into consideration, was recently fined $6,000 for molesting a former pub operations manager in January 2007 after a trial.
