Pimp who managed 20 Singaporean prostitutes jailed 29 months, fined $100,000
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A man who started an online escort service and managed 21 prostitutes, including 20 Singaporean women, was sentenced to 29 months’ jail and fined $100,000 at the State Courts on Thursday (19 April).![]()
Cai Can Yao Andrew, 35, had earlier pleaded guilty to 12 charges of recruiting prostitutes and living off their earnings. He earned over $168,000 from the time he started his business in 2009 up until his arrest in 2016.
Twenty-seven other similar charges under the Women’s Charter were taken into consideration for Cai’s sentencing.
Court documents showed that Cai started a social escort agency called Singapore Premium Escort Services sometime in 2009 and advertised its services online. Three years later he roped in his secondary school friend Billy Thien Chin Wei, 35.
The pair then set up two more websites to advertise the services of the prostitutes under their charge.
Well-oiled operation
The duo split the work, agreeing to share the profits evenly. Cai would recruit the women while Thien secured bookings with customers.
Cai would recruit the women through online advertisements. He would meet prospective prostitutes, get their age and have them rate their own looks on a scale of one to 10.
Cai would then assign an hourly rate that the women could charge, usually between $300 and $600. The two friends would get a 25 per cent to 30 per cent commission for each client they secured for the prostitutes.
If the terms were agreeable to the women, Cai would arrange photoshoots for them – with the pictures taken being used for advertorial purposes. Besides their own websites, the duo also paid for online advertorial space on the EZ141 and Sammyboy Forum websites.
Thien handled the phone line through which clients could make bookings, which occurred on a daily basis. He also updated the prostitutes’ availability on their websites.
Thien also helped to arrange the appointments between clients and prostitutes, and would collect the commission from the women after they completed each job.
Game’s up
The operation came to a halt on the night of 18 May 2016 when police raided Hotel Boss along Jalan Sultan arresting two prostitutes who worked for the duo. This led the police to Thien and Cai, who were arrested the next day.
Thien pleaded guilty last year and was also sentenced to 29 months jail and fined $100,000.
Cai’s lawyer Peter Ong had argued that his client was less culpable than Thien because he did not handle the money, nor did he arrange the meet-ups between the women and their clients.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Jesintha Veijayaratnam disagreed, saying that both parties were equally guilty. She sought a sentence of 29 months’ jail and a $120,000 fine for Cai.
Judge Josephine Kang agreed with the prosecution. While she accepted that Thien played the additional role of revenue collector, she noted that this was “equalised, if not eclipsed” by the fact that Cai had started the business three years before Billy joined.
It was a “relatively sophisticated” operation with “one of the largest” number of prostitutes seen so far, said the judge, who added that Cai had to take responsibility for roping Thien into the business. Furthermore, the duo had agreed to split their profits evenly, indicating that they shared an equal amount of work.
Cai will begin his jail term on 3 May. The court had accepted his request for a two-week deferment so that he could arrange for the $100,000 fine to be paid. He is out on a $30,000 bail backed by his spouse and is not allowed to leave the country.
For living on the earnings of a prostitute, Cai could have been jailed up to five years, and fined up to $10,000 on each charge. The act of recruiting prostitutes carries the same punishment.
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The man asked his girlfriend to engage in sex work for fast cash, persisting even after she had given birth to their child.
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File photo of the State Courts of Singapore (Photo: CNA/Jeremy Long)
Lydia Lam
22 Jul 2024 07:19PM (Updated: 22 Jul 2024 07:58PM)
SINGAPORE: A man who had the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) passed it to his girlfriend who later became his wife and mother of his child.
He asked the woman to provide sexual services for fast cash and continued to do this after he knew she had contracted HIV from him, and even after she gave birth to their child.
The 37-year-old Singaporean man was sentenced to 20 months' jail on Monday (Jul 22) for offences related to his involvement in sex work.
He pleaded guilty to four charges under the Women's Charter for living on the earnings of sex work, for procuring his girlfriend for sex work and for offering her sexual services on Telegram.
Another 14 charges were considered in sentencing.
The man and his wife, who is now 43, both cannot be named due to gag orders imposed by the court.
THE CASE
The court heard that the man met his wife online and they began dating in 2014. He told her at the start that he was HIV-positive.
That same year, he suggested that the woman provide sexual services for fast cash. The pair were living together and both had jobs, but they did not have enough money for rent.
The woman disagreed initially but was eventually persuaded otherwise.
From 2014 to 2018, the pair would go to Geylang, where the woman would wait along the road while her boyfriend solicited customers for her.
He would then escort her to a hotel, following her and her customer, and waited outside until she was done.
He told his girlfriend to call him if there was any trouble and settled on rates of S$70 (US$52) to S$90 depending on the type of services provided.
They did not fix arrangements on how to split the earnings, instead using it for their shared expenses of food and rental.
In September 2017, the woman was admitted to hospital and diagnosed with HIV. They both knew she had contracted it from the offender.
Despite this, the couple both persisted with their sex work arrangements.
The man told his girlfriend not to tell her customers about her HIV status, knowing that they would not hire her otherwise.
The woman agreed, even though she knew there was a risk she could transmit it to her customers.
At some point, she told her boyfriend that she wanted to tell her customers about her status, but he advised her against it as they would reject her services.
They both knew that they were required by law to inform sexual partners of the risk of contracting HIV infection from the woman before engaging in sexual activity.
On top of this, the woman did not comply with her antiretroviral treatment (ART) from February 2018 to May 2018.
She stopped engaging in sex work sometime in 2018, when she discovered that she was pregnant with the offender's child.
WAS ASKED TO CONTINUE SEX WORK DESPITE MARRIAGE AND GIVING BIRTH
In 2019, the offender asked his now-wife to provide sexual services again, as family expenses were mounting after the birth of their child. They had gotten married in July 2018.
The woman again disagreed but eventually gave in after her husband persisted.
She was not happy about it, but understood that they needed money and agreed to resume charging the same rates in Geylang.
This time, the offender looked for customers by advertising his wife on Telegram. He posed as his wife and liaised with potential customers, informing them about rates and arranging appointments.
The woman would provide sexual services in hotels or the living room of the couple's residence. Sometimes, her child was asleep at home while the sex work was ongoing.
Other times, the offender would take the child to the void deck while customers came over.
The pair provided the customers with condoms and asked that they use them, concealing the fact that the woman was HIV-positive. However, not all customers used protection.
Even after the woman moved out in December 2020 due to "household problems", their sex work arrangement went on, court documents stated.
On Mar 15, 2022, the offender texted his wife to tell her about a customer. The woman refused to serve him and said she no longer wanted to be a sex worker.
She said she had informed her father about the arrangement.
The offender replied not to tell anyone about it and not to involve her dad. He asked her to block her father and delete his number, and said he would talk to her.
However, the woman lodged a police report.
Although the man regularly deleted conversations with the customers, investigations revealed he had spoken to at least 12 prospective customers on Telegram between December 2021 and March 2022.
The prosecutor sought 21 to 22 months' jail for the offender, saying the period of offending was "substantial" at about four years.
The offender had used a residential property for prostitution and instructed the woman to service customers despite knowing about her condition and obligations to disclose her HIV status.
Those with HIV are no longer legally required to disclose the risk of contracting it to their sexual partners as long as they have maintained undetectable viral loads for at least six months, under a Bill passed in Parliament in March.
CNA has contacted the prosecution on whether the woman was prosecuted, and if she passed HIV to anyone else.
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At its core, slapper is an insulting term. You don’t use this one in everyday conversation – you use it when you are specifically looking to offend someone.
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Another way you might hear it is something like the following: “Close your legs, you slapper!”
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