SINGAPORE — A man who used a pinhole camera to record his wife’s two sisters in private acts claimed he had done so to alleviate stress.
He pleaded guilty to three counts of insulting a woman’s modesty on Monday , with six other charges to be considered when he is sentenced. These include trespassing into a ladies’ toilet, other charges of insulting a woman’s modesty, and uploading several videos he took onto a forum.District Judge Shaiffudin Saruwan ordered the man to attend a psychiatric assessment at the Institute of Mental Health so that he can be examined for a mandatory treatment suitability report.
He recorded them at least thrice in 2018, on the latter occasion capturing the two sisters showering together. A few days after this incident, the device stopped working and the man smashed it with a hammer before disposing of it.The man also targeted two female colleagues, aged 24 and 30, and another woman, 26, who was attending an induction programme with him.He followed the younger woman into the toilet and entered the cubicle next to hers.
The man, who had assumed the woman was going to report the matter, quickly deleted the videos he had recorded and all other obscene material stored on his phone. When confronted by the police, he initially lied that he had stomach issues and needed to use the female toilet urgently. He eventually confessed to the offences.
However, the incident did not deter him from future acts. Shortly after he was married in October 2018, he returned to illicitly recording women as "a maladaptive, dysfunctional coping mechanism", said the IMH report.