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Bus driver who dated girl, 13, gets jail and caning for statutory rape
SINGAPORE: A 26-year-old bus driver who was introduced to a 13-year-old girl on his route later entered into a relationship with her. The girl later lodged a police report saying the man had engaged in sex with her multiple times. The man, now 30, was sentenced to eight years' jail and six strokes of the cane on Friday (Jul 25). He pleaded guilty to one count of statutory rape, with another six charges taken into consideration. All parties cannot be named due to a gag order protecting the victim's identity. The court heard that the man was a bus driver with SMRT in 2021. The victim took his bus to school every morning. In November 2021, the girl joined an interest group on Instagram and was introduced to the offender. They followed each other on Instagram and began chatting. About a week into their daily chats, the offender asked the girl out on a date. She agreed as she had developed feelings for him, the court heard. They began going out together. On Dec 9, 2021, the offender rented a car and drove the girl to a multi-storey car park. They had sex, and the offender drove the girl home. During their relationship, the pair met almost every day after the bus driver's shift. This went on until early 2022, when they broke up. Throughout this time, the victim was 13 years old and the driver was twice her age. Sometime between February 2022 and April 2022, the victim's aunts noticed a change in her behaviour. They spoke to her and she told them that the offender had had sex with her in a rented car. The aunts wanted to lodge a police report, but the girl begged them not to. It was only in around June 2022 that the girl called one of her aunts and asked to be taken to lodge a police report. The victim's mother was only informed about what had happened a day before the report was lodged. Prosecutors sought eight to nine years' jail and six strokes of the cane, noting that there were four other similar charges taken into consideration. However, they noted that the offender pleaded guilty early, cooperated and was relatively young at the time of the offence. For statutory rape, an offender can be jailed for up to 20 years and fined or caned.
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'Vape bins' to be placed across Singapore; no penalties for surrendering devices
Singapore has unveiled a new national campaign to encourage vape users to surrender their devices "Bin the Vape" lets users safely dispose of their devices at 24 bins across the island. The Health Ministry said those who come forward to bin their vapes, or voluntarily seek support for quitting, will not face any penalties for doing so. One in three vapes seized in Singapore contains etomidate, an anaesthetic agent that will soon be classified as a Class C drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act. Offences related to it carry up to 20 years' jail and caning. Aslam Shah reports.
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Thousands of men shared non-consensual intimate photos on Telegram: Chinese media
BEIJING: Thousands of men allegedly shared intimate photos and videos of their girlfriends without consent on the Telegram messaging app, Chinese media reported, sparking widespread outcry against secret filming and calls to better protect women. Pornography in China is illegal, and conservative social attitudes towards women remain the norm, often reinforced by state media and popular culture. It comes after a Chinese university expelled a female student this month for "damaging national dignity" over videos posted by a Ukrainian esports player on Telegram suggesting they had been intimate. The Chinese state-owned Southern Daily reported this week a woman had discovered that photos of her taken unknowingly had been shared in a Telegram forum with over 100,000 users, mostly Chinese men. Members of the forum also shared photos of their girlfriends, ex-girlfriends and wives, according to a commentary in the Guangming Daily, an outlet backed by China's ruling communist party. Revelations of the group have sparked widespread outcry online. "We are not ... 'content' that can be randomly uploaded, viewed and fantasised about," read one comment on Instagram-like Red Note. "We can no longer remain silent. Because next could be me, or it could be you." A related hashtag has been viewed more than 230 million times on social media platform Weibo since Thursday. The largest group, called "Mask Park", has since been taken down, but smaller spinoffs remain active, according to women contacted by Southern Daily. Telegram encrypts its users' messages and is banned in China, but it is accessible using a virtual private network. "NIGHTMARES FOR LIFE" The incident has drawn comparisons to a case in South Korea dubbed "Nth Room", in which a man blackmailed dozens of women into taking sexually explicit videos and sold them on Telegram. Chinese women have taken to social media to detail their own experiences being filmed and photographed by men in public. "What criminals consider 'regular' for them may be nightmares that countless women can't escape for the rest of their lives," one woman said, sharing an encounter on Douyin. Chinese police have cracked down on illegal filming, arresting hundreds of people in 2022 over clandestine surveillance activities. But women's rights are sensitive territory in China – over the last decade, authorities have suppressed almost every form of independent feminist activism. #MeToo activist Sophia Huang Xueqin was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of "inciting subversion of state power" after she became a symbol of the country's stalled feminist movement. Chinese authorities have yet to publicly announce any action against the Telegram group. But the Guangming Daily commentary urged "accountability" for the organisers of the Telegram group, and empathy for the people filmed. Improving law enforcement would "enhance the overall sense of security, free women from the fear of being spied on and make privacy boundaries a truly untouchable red line", it said.
