A former teacher was jailed for 13 months on Thursday ( Aug 15 ) for allegedly possessing child abuse material and refusing to give the police passwords for some of his devices.
Eugene Quake, a 40-year-old Singaporean, pleaded guilty to one count each of possessing child maltreatment stuff and obstructing justice.
Sentencing was taken into account for the additional two offenses of possessing and producing outrageous pictures.
A Ministry of Education director recently informed CNA that Quake had been suspended since March 2023 and was no more a teacher there.
The prosecutor was informed that Quake, who had downloaded the messaging apps Telegram in 2020, realized there were numerous chat groups that shared queer sexuality.
He joined several of them because he was interested in the materials, but some talk party members occasionally post child abuse stories.
Collapse claimed that he had formerly watched videos of adults raping babies in these chat rooms.
After he watched the videos, Quake set his Telegram configurations to “auto download,” which means that Quake would instantly download them to his phone.
He even used search words like “boys” to search for sex online.
On Mar 15, 2023, the police raided Quake’s apartment device after receiving information.
They detained Quake, seized two cellular telephones, a notebook, and a convenient travel.
Collapse provided the password to only one of the phones, a dark phone.  , The hard drive was not encrypted, and the authorities found 10 pictures containing child abuse materials.
According to court documents, the youngest guys in the photos appeared to be under 10 years old.
Collapse admitted using the other phone- a light iPhone, which was his main device- and his laptop, a MacBook, to see porn.
Because they believed there was more child maltreatment substance in these two items, the policeman wanted to check the contents of these two items.
Quake, however, refused to provide the passcodes to the light iPhone and computer despite receiving a warning from the police that breaking the law might result in criminal behavior.
Because of Hurricane’s rejection, the police were unable to get the two devices.
SENTENCING Claims
Sheldon Lim, the deputy public attorney, requested a full word of between 14 and 18 months in prison.
He claimed that Quake’s offending was for a long time, about three years, and that he had seen “incredibly perverted content- movies of adults raping babies and infants.”
The misuse of 13 children, who were thought to be between 10 and 14 years old, was captured in the 10 baby abuse pictures Collapse possessed.
Of the 10 pictures, eight have “extremely shocking content”, said Mr Lim.
Collapse and two people went to court. He first did not want to add anything more to his two-page written reduction appeal, but he looked over and appeared embarrassed during the reading.
But, when questioned by the judge, Collapse said he was not represented because he just wanted to “move on with whatever word” was given.
He eventually added:” I’m not a lawyer but I would set it as minimal damage and lower culpability”.
Quake then claimed that he had forgotten the passcode for his light iPhone and that it would be locked if he had tried it once more clumsily.
He claimed that the reason he did not want to give the login to his notebook was because “other delicate things” were stored inside that were connected to his partner and that he did not want to involve the suspect in the investigation.
He added that any changes made to the laptop’s hard pull, which the police could get, would already be done.
In reaction, the attorney said the pale phone was used by Quake for everyday conversation, casting doubt on how he could have forgotten the password.
If the material of Quake’s hard drive were already there, Collapse may have simply given the police the laptop’s password.
District Judge Koo Zhi Xuan said the authorities must establish a statement in order to halt the need for child abuse supplies.
He acknowledged that the insulting period spanned close to three times and was quite lengthy.
However, he noted that the 10 pictures, though horrible, were no videos and were not as wicked and dangerous as the material in another situation used for evaluation.
Judge Koo argued that the sentence must send a clear message to those who are suspected of possessing child sex materials that they ca n’t expect to be easily offended if they refuse to cooperate with the authorities and stop the full scope of the crimes from being discovered.