SINGAPORE: After their relationship deteriorated, a 25-year-old man threatened to post intimate videos together with his girlfriend online, and used a knife to pressure the girl into sex along with him.
The man on Tuesday (Aug 2) pleaded guilty to two counts of legal intimidation and one rely of having an offensive weapon. Four more charges will be considered pertaining to sentencing.
The particular 23-year-old victim’s identification is protected by gag order, and the offender’s name had been redacted from court documents.
The courtroom heard that the couple met on a relationship application in May 2018. Over a few occasions that year, the person took five movies and one photo of these having sex.
Their own relationship started going down hill in August 2018. In late 2018, the particular victim told her boyfriend to delete the particular intimate videos and photo.
The girl went to his house and deleted the particular files from his computer and mobile phone with his agreement. Yet unknown to her, her boyfriend had kept copies of them upon other devices.
A few months later on Mar 25, 2019, the couple had an discussion. The offender was angry that the target did not reciprocate their affection and wanted to break up with him.
Over text, the man threatened to hack into the woman’s Instagram account and post the personal videos and photograph of them on her give food to, alarming her.
PRESSURED HER IN TO SEX WITH A KNIFE
Things required another turn on the night of Apr 7, 2019, when the couple was discussing the state of their relationship while sitting under the victim’s block.
Sometime after midnight, the person asked the woman to get sex with him. He was cantankerous as they had not got sex in a long time, since their partnership started deteriorating, stated Deputy Public Prosecutor Chong Ee Hsiun.
The victim rebuffed him as well as the man became upset. He took out there a flip-knife from his pocket plus held it by the side of his body with the knife still folded, stating: “Really cannot? ”
When the target continued to say simply no, he flipped the particular blade of the cutlery out, poked its tip against his girlfriend’s thigh plus asked her regardless of whether it hurt.
He then explained to the particular victim that “the sensation of being poked by the knife represents how much he has already been hurting all the time because of the deterioration in their relationship”, said Mr Chong.
The target started crying. The person placed the knife’s blade at the side of her neck, holding its tip to her skin. He continued to ask her if it hurt, and mentioned this was how he previously been feeling.
The victim, nevertheless crying, agreed to have sexual intercourse with her boyfriend and said they can do so during a staycation planned later that month.
The person then put the flip-knife back in his pocket, waited for the target to calm down and took a taxi home.
Based on the offender, he carried the flip-knife around as he felt urges to self-harm. This individual was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, mixed anxiety and depressive disorder, and abusive drinking disorder, said Mr Chong.
But the Institute of Psychological Health found these conditions only a new contributory link to his offences involving the flip-knife, and not his threat to distribute the particular intimate videos using the victim, said the particular prosecutor.
The particular prosecution is looking for five to eight months’ jail for your man. The offender, who is symbolized by Mr Chua Hock Lu, may return for sentencing in September.
The punishment for criminal intimidation is jail for up to 2 yrs, a fine or both.
For having an offensive tool, the man could be jailed for up to two years.