44-yr-old Indian National Sentenced to Jail in Singapore for Molesting Indonesian Domestic Worker
News 18A 44-year old Indian national was sentenced to two years’ jail and two strokes of the cane on Tuesday for molesting an Indonesian domestic worker here, according to a media report. Selvaraj was at a Bukit Panjang coffee shop at around 8 pm on June 6 when he tried befriending the 37-year-old woman as she was walking back from a coffee shop to her employer’s apartment, reported The Straits Times. Deputy Public Prosecutor Shana Poon said, “While he was following the victim, the accused asked her for her name and mobile phone number. On Tuesday, District Judge Marvin Bay said, “It is important that foreign domestic workers, a vulnerable class of persons, be adequately protected from sexual exploitation… It was fortuitous that the was present was sufficiently situationally aware to find out what was happening and… directly intervene.” For molestation, Selvaraj could have been jailed for up to 10 years and caned.