Doctor in SG gets 13 weeks' jail for filming clinic assistant showering at work

SINGAPORE: A medical center assistant who experienced cycled to work told a doctor there that will she was going to the bathroom . to change her clothes.

After the 43-year-old woman entered the bathroom ., the doctor went to the alley next to the particular clinic via a back again door and documented the victim bathing.

The 37-year-old offender was sentenced to 13 weeks’ jail on Mon (Aug 8) after he pleaded accountable to a voyeurism charge.

The doctor cannot be named as there is a gag order safeguarding the victim’s identification.

Deputy Community Prosecutor Emily Zhao told the courtroom that the doctor had been in the clinic once the victim arrived at 8am on March 23, 2021.

The bathroom . she used was the only one there, positioned in the doctor’s workplace the offender utilized. It had an angle-slotted window that confronted the alley outside the clinic.

Since the victim was showering, she noticed a shadow at the windowpane and a green mobile phone extended through one of the gaps, with the camera pointing at her. She also noticed a piece of paper attached to the rear of the phone.

The victim instantly shouted, after which the device was withdrawn.

She quickly got dressed, left the toilet and went to the particular alley.

She saw a closed-circuit television camera owned by a hardware store, which pointed to the alley and got the camera video footage from the shop when it opened.

Viewing the footage, the lady saw a man within the blue, green and white striped best and a pair of greyish pants loitering in the alley at about eight. 10am that time.

Based on the clothes and the build of the male subject, the girl suspected it was a doctor.

The center assistant knew the doctor had a green Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro phone with a piece of yellow document placed between the telephone and its cover.

She did not confront the doctor, but straight notified her company about the incident.

The offender afterwards admitted that he visited the alley at the rear of the toilet with the purpose of watching the particular victim showering.

He attempted to discover inside the toilet by jumping towards the window. He then left, and returned with his mobile phone to record the particular victim showering.

After she shouted, he ran returning to the clinic plus deleted the two video clip recordings and one picture of the victim he previously taken.

This individual was arrested on March 25, 2021.

For voyeurism, the doctor could have been jailed for up to two years, fined, caned or sentenced to any combination of these types of punishments. – The particular Straits Times (Singapore)/Asia News Network