SINGAPORE: The particular prosecution is searching for five to 8 months’ jail for former radio disc jockey Dee Kosh, who has admitted to sexual offences including two teenage kids.
A district court also noticed that Kosh’s publishing of a YouTube video about his case recording was sub judice conduct. The video continues to be taken down.
The particular prosecution and defence made oral fights on Wednesday (Aug 3), and Kosh will return for his sentencing upon Friday.
The YouTuber, named Darryl Ian Koshy within court documents, previously accepted to soliciting compensated sexual services from three victims between 2017 and 2020.
Two from the victims were underaged at the time. Kosh, thirty-three, also secretly shot himself having sex using the third victim, then aged 23 in order to 25.
All the victims’ identities are usually protected by fun order.
In-may, Kosh pleaded guilty to attempting to procure an indecent act from a youthful person, communicating with a minor to obtain sexual providers and making a good obscene film.
Four more charges will be considered meant for sentencing.
The court had purchased Kosh to undergo a psychiatric examination on the Institute of Psychological Health (IMH) in order to assess whether he has a paedophilic disorder and his risk of reoffending.
Upon Wednesday, defence lawyer Johannes Hadi informed the court that will Kosh was found not to suffer from paedophilic disorder and that their risk of offending was deemed low.
The lawyer sought a shorter jail term of two-and-a-half months meant for his client.
“SEASONED CRIMINAL”, STATES PROSECUTION
Recommending the court to impose a longer jail term, Deputy Public Prosecutor Lim Ying Min argued that Kosh deliberately searched for minors to proposition even though he understood the victims’ ages.
She referred to Kosh’s conduct as highly premeditated and persistent, arguing which he capitalised on his celebrity status and used money to entice the victims.
Ms Lim furthermore said it was depressing that Kosh had taken steps to conceal their wrongdoing.
The defence argued that will Kosh moved their conversations with the underaged victims to Telegram’s “secret chat” plus Snapchat because he wanted to be discreet regarding his sexuality.
Calling this explanation “fanciful” and “an afterthought designed to mislead”, the prosecutor retorted that Kosh experienced “no qualms” about flirting with young boys he met on social media, and that it was not discreet conduct.
Ms Lim also contended that Kosh’s admission towards the offences was not inspired by remorse.
In doing so, the girl referred to a more compared to nine minute-long video clip that Kosh published on YouTube on January 26. This was each day after indicating he would beg guilty .
Ms Lim said that posting the video was sub judice carry out as his case was still prior to the courts, and that Kosh took the video straight down after the prosecution required its removal.
Reading out extracts from a transcript from the video, she stated Kosh used it to mislead the public and lighten his offences to a case associated with mistaken assumption from the victims’ ages, whenever he in fact understood they were underaged.
Ms Lim also highlighted that right after allegations of intimate misconduct started appearance in August 2020, Kosh’s lawyers issued a letter to an alleged victim demanding that he cease and desist from publishing his claims on any platform.
Describing Kosh like a “seasoned criminal experienced at avoiding detection”, she added that his status as a first-time offender needs to be given little excuse weight as his sexual propositioning of minors took place over three years.
KOSH IS REMORSEFUL, STATES DEFENCE
In response, Mr Hadi declared that Kosh made it to address news reports and “false rumours” about his case.
He contended that his client was remorseful, plus read out other extracts from the video clip transcript in which Kosh said he had produced “terrible mistakes”.
Mr Hadi furthermore asked the courtroom to consider the document of the IMH doctor who examined Kosh and found that will his risk associated with offending was low.
Citing the IMH report, Mister Hadi said the reasons for this finding were that Kosh has been remorseful, employed and did not suffer from substance abuse or psychiatric disorder.
He also argued that his client was relatively young and had good prospects for rehabilitation.
District Determine Jasvender Kaur stated she would deliver her sentence after thinking of both parties’ distribution.
Kosh attended the hearing in the State Courts together with his supporters, including social media personalities Wendy Cheng, also known as Xiaxue, and Aiman Haikal.
PROPOSITIONED TWO TEEN BOYS
Kosh rose to fame on YouTube and was a presenter on radio station Power 98, a position he kept during the offences.
Power 98 reports that Kosh has been suspended since getting charged in August last year. Before that, he was positioned on no-pay leave pending investigations.
The particular court previously heard that in Mar 2018, Kosh used his verified Instagram account to information the first underaged sufferer, identified as A1 within court documents. A1 informed Kosh he had been under 16.
Kosh then recommended moving their discussion to a Telegram “secret chat”, where text messages could be set to become automatically deleted and could not be forwarded in order to others. Kosh would also be informed in case a screenshot was used.
On this platform, Kosh offered A1 S$100 to S$250 in exchange for intimate services.
A2 was shocked plus initially thought Kosh was joking, but the man’s persistence made him realise it had been not a joke.
A1 gradually ceased talking to Kosh right after he made one more offer of money meant for sex.
Their conversations took place over four months until June 2018. A1 did not cease marketing communications immediately as he had been afraid of offending Kosh.
Kosh noticed the second victim, recognized as A2 in court documents, outside Takashimaya upon Orchard Road throughout a video shoot within February 2017.
He approached A2 and was later on put in touch along with him through social networking. They communicated over WhatsApp, with A2 informing Kosh which he was under eighteen.
Kosh recommended that A2 work for him, offering to show the boy about production work, how to take selfies plus increase his confidence.
They began talking and Kosh initiated a “question game”. He started to ask the target questions of an intimate nature.
This particular led to Kosh informing A2 that he had an “indecent proposal” plus suggested moving the conversation to Snapchat, which shares a few features of a Telegram “secret chat”.
Kosh asked A2 for a shirtless picture so that he could “blackmail” him if he or she talked. A2 failed to send the photo, but assured Kosh that he would not speak.
Kosh after that asked A2 what it would take to get him to allow someone to perform a sexual respond on him. He added that A2 would be blindfolded and would not know the person’s gender.
Eventually, Kosh revealed the fact that person who would perform the sexual operate was himself, plus offered the target S$400. He steadily raised this are S$2, 000 after A2 repeatedly dropped.
Their discussion was recorded on video clip by A2’s roommate using another telephone.
SECRETLY SHOT SEX PARTNER
In 2016, Kosh started following the third victim, identified as A3 in court documents, upon social media.
These people started chatting plus Kosh invited A3 to his home. The victim agreed as he thought it might lead to a recruitment opportunity at Kosh’s production company.
At Kosh’s house, they chatted for some time before going into the bedroom, where Kosh performed a sexual action on A3.
After this, A3 continuing to go to Kosh’s home to hang out plus engage in paid plus unpaid sexual acts from 2016 in order to 2020.
On one of these occasions among 2016 and 2017, Kosh used a concealed camera to movie them having sex without the victim’s knowledge or even consent.
Nothing of the victims reported the offences towards the police immediately, as each thought he was the only victim and was afraid of going against “a celebrity with a big following”, said the particular prosecutor.
Allegations of sexual misconduct by Kosh surfaced online in August 2020, when a man posted on Instagram that he was physically harassed by Kosh.
Shortly after, a lot more victims came ahead on social media. Kosh initially denied all the claims, but later addressed them upon social media, admitting there was some truth to them.
The victims realised they were not the only ones targeted by Kosh, and A1 produced a police review on Aug 16, 2020. Kosh had been arrested on Oct 5, 2020.
Kosh could be jailed for up to five yrs, fined up to S$10, 000 or each for attempted sex-related exploitation of a youthful person under the Children and Young Persons Act.
Regarding communicating with the purpose of getting sexual services of the minor, he could end up being jailed for up to 2 yrs and fined.
The penalty to make an obscene movie is a jail term of up to two years plus a fine of among S$20, 000 plus S$40, 000.